2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (681+ words) (Yes, this is the second early Diary you’ve had in a row. Don’t get comfortable, my dears! I wrote this one last night, because I’m traveling this morning.) Boy, I can’t recommend strongly enough Yale historian Carlos Eire’s thick book…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (90+ words) Rod Dreher's Diary And: Queering The Church; Black Youth Crime; Vatican & UFOs; Danish Identity The great Mary Harrington has a terrific piece about St. Thomas Aquinas. I cannot do its complexity justice by quoting it; you really do have to…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1265+ words) I said I wasn’t going to publish on Orthodox Good Friday, so I’m writing this on Thursday. There is nothing I could possibly write that would top the testimony that Christian man, heroic in his suffering, says in the interview....

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (844+ words) It was wonderful, cheering, all the good things. At one point, we noticed a nice-looking young man sitting alone at the table next to us. We heard him speaking accented English with the server. I leaned over after she left…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (17+ words) Comments - Not My Kind Of Christian Nationalism Rod Dreher's Diary Keep reading with a 7-day free trial...

6+ mon, 4+ hour ago   (1842+ words) What a wonderful conference we have had here at Pusey House, the Anglo-Catholic stronghold in Oxford. The two keynote lectures — Wednesday’s by Mary Harrington, today’s by Iain McGilchrist — were blockbusters. Let me share with you from my conference notes. On…...