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A brief intro to my piece defending the Precious Moments Chapel millinerd.substack.com/p/transfigur... and here is the piece itself: mbird.com/art/a-visit-...
A Visit to the Precious Moments Chapel - Mockingbird
Art History Under the Camouflage of Kitsch
mbird.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:47 PM
A brief intro to my piece defending the Precious Moments Chapel millinerd.substack.com/p/transfigur... and here is the piece itself: mbird.com/art/a-visit-...
“Christ at his Incarnation took not only a human mind and will but a human body, and so he has made the flesh into an inexhaustible source of sanctification.” -Kallistos Ware www.orthodoxprayer.org/Articles_fil...
Jesus Prayer - Breathing Exercises - Metropolitan Kalistos Ware
www.orthodoxprayer.org
December 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
“Christ at his Incarnation took not only a human mind and will but a human body, and so he has made the flesh into an inexhaustible source of sanctification.” -Kallistos Ware www.orthodoxprayer.org/Articles_fil...
Don’t give up on Mary just yet. Ten days of Christmas left. Mark and I discuss evangelicalism, goddesses, grieving the beloved Dan Treier, Walsingham, the Black Madonna and above all the good news of the Word made flesh. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
December 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Don’t give up on Mary just yet. Ten days of Christmas left. Mark and I discuss evangelicalism, goddesses, grieving the beloved Dan Treier, Walsingham, the Black Madonna and above all the good news of the Word made flesh. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Dan Treier: faithful husband, father, teacher, theologian, friend.
December 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Dan Treier: faithful husband, father, teacher, theologian, friend.
“If everything is a sacrament then nothing is” (p. 357).
December 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“If everything is a sacrament then nothing is” (p. 357).
Reposted
“Endless eons of death untold mean the rock I hold is but one of a trillion tragic tombstones. Attractive as the God-drenched mysticism of St. Dionysius may be, if I do hold “you” in my hand, I am horrified.”
On Christ and Coral
A meditation addressed to God on the mystical properties of coral.
comment.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“Endless eons of death untold mean the rock I hold is but one of a trillion tragic tombstones. Attractive as the God-drenched mysticism of St. Dionysius may be, if I do hold “you” in my hand, I am horrified.”
Two podcasts for the season: What We Can Learn from the Saints at Choosing Better open.spotify.com/episode/2Zaw... and A Womb More Spacious than the Stars @YaleCFC podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/m...
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Two podcasts for the season: What We Can Learn from the Saints at Choosing Better open.spotify.com/episode/2Zaw... and A Womb More Spacious than the Stars @YaleCFC podcasts.apple.com/lk/podcast/m...
That time Jesus missed his chance to write a bestseller on universalism. "And someone said to him, 'Lord, will those who are saved be few?' And he said to them, 'Strive to enter through the narrow door...'" (Luke 13:24).
December 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
That time Jesus missed his chance to write a bestseller on universalism. "And someone said to him, 'Lord, will those who are saved be few?' And he said to them, 'Strive to enter through the narrow door...'" (Luke 13:24).
Join me for the Advent prayer challenge: Pray only with digital versions of attractive celebrities on your favorite app. No need to ever associate with regular Christians or darken the door of an actual church building again. Best of all we’ll call it “spiritual renewal”!
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Join me for the Advent prayer challenge: Pray only with digital versions of attractive celebrities on your favorite app. No need to ever associate with regular Christians or darken the door of an actual church building again. Best of all we’ll call it “spiritual renewal”!
For Chicagoland locals, I worked up this fancy graphic (AI free!) for my talk entitled Miracles on Roosevelt Road... Hope to see you next Monday Dec. 8 at 7pm at the @WheatonPL (online or in person, but please do register at this link) www.wheatonlibrary.org/event/miracl...
December 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
For Chicagoland locals, I worked up this fancy graphic (AI free!) for my talk entitled Miracles on Roosevelt Road... Hope to see you next Monday Dec. 8 at 7pm at the @WheatonPL (online or in person, but please do register at this link) www.wheatonlibrary.org/event/miracl...
I spent 4 days at the Orthodox Academy of Crete where the Russians famously backed out of the Holy and Great Council of 2016 (presaging the war). Among the participants was a former young Russian monk (an Augustine scholar) who was defrocked for opposing the same war. He can’t go home.
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I spent 4 days at the Orthodox Academy of Crete where the Russians famously backed out of the Holy and Great Council of 2016 (presaging the war). Among the participants was a former young Russian monk (an Augustine scholar) who was defrocked for opposing the same war. He can’t go home.
Subscribe to The Critic. That is all.
November 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Subscribe to The Critic. That is all.
Love letter to Canada with a crooked bow tie, being my Larkin-Stuart lecture last week at the University of Toronto's Trinity College www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrhH...
Larkin-Stuart Lecture featuring Prof. Matthew J. Milliner
YouTube video by Trinity College in the University of Toronto
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November 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Love letter to Canada with a crooked bow tie, being my Larkin-Stuart lecture last week at the University of Toronto's Trinity College www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrhH...
Someone at a conference today began a question by saying, “We are academics, we don’t believe in God.” It was so cute! We snickered politely and carried on.
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Someone at a conference today began a question by saying, “We are academics, we don’t believe in God.” It was so cute! We snickered politely and carried on.
Report from Toronto: growing majors at the U of T include religion, philosophy, and art history (told to me by a prof). Anglican vicar says students are showing up at church out of the blue saying, “I need meaning in my life.”
November 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Report from Toronto: growing majors at the U of T include religion, philosophy, and art history (told to me by a prof). Anglican vicar says students are showing up at church out of the blue saying, “I need meaning in my life.”
You wanna know who is a real scholar-pastor of faithful integrity in a great North American city? Jason Byassee.
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 AM
You wanna know who is a real scholar-pastor of faithful integrity in a great North American city? Jason Byassee.
You wanna know who is a real scholar-pastor of faithful integrity in a great North American city? Jason Byassee.
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
You wanna know who is a real scholar-pastor of faithful integrity in a great North American city? Jason Byassee.
Reposted
“I don’t need to “deconstruct” my faith because I have read Dionysius the Areopagite, who does such a better job of that than modern Christians, all the while pointing me to the un-deconstructible mystery of Christ.”
Evangelicalism: A Love Story
While many have left evangelicalism behind, others have benefited from the quiet faithfulness of everyday evangelicals.
comment.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
“I don’t need to “deconstruct” my faith because I have read Dionysius the Areopagite, who does such a better job of that than modern Christians, all the while pointing me to the un-deconstructible mystery of Christ.”
“'Would you feel better if I’d shown up wearing a Proton Pack?' I asked." via the ever delightful Mockingcast mbird.com/everyday/exp...
Exponents of Falsehood - Mockingbird
An Absolutely True Story of an Exorcism
mbird.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“'Would you feel better if I’d shown up wearing a Proton Pack?' I asked." via the ever delightful Mockingcast mbird.com/everyday/exp...
Like I said, enjoying the resurgence of classical theism.
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Like I said, enjoying the resurgence of classical theism.
I’m very much enjoying living through the inevitable resurgence of “classical theism” (or whatever one chooses to call it).
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I’m very much enjoying living through the inevitable resurgence of “classical theism” (or whatever one chooses to call it).
George MacDonald to John Ruskin, improving on Julian of Norwich (which is no easy task): “I am more and more convinced that all is on the way to being well, with a wellness to which there is no other way than this, where you and I are walking.” www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...
Holding the actual letters!
YouTube video by Malcolm Guite
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November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
George MacDonald to John Ruskin, improving on Julian of Norwich (which is no easy task): “I am more and more convinced that all is on the way to being well, with a wellness to which there is no other way than this, where you and I are walking.” www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...
“It speaks volumes that leaders in this church supported Perpetua’s writing to the point of saving this document, which would have been easy to destroy. Instead, they edited it after her martyrdom, published it, and made sure it received a reading.” -NadyaWilliams t.co/R8UPbfWLQv
https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/sarah-ruden-perpetua-review/
t.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“It speaks volumes that leaders in this church supported Perpetua’s writing to the point of saving this document, which would have been easy to destroy. Instead, they edited it after her martyrdom, published it, and made sure it received a reading.” -NadyaWilliams t.co/R8UPbfWLQv