Last year I managed 60 books, a slight increase from last year. I am slowly clawing my way back to my pre-pandemic levels of reading but I am still not quite there yet. As I reflected last year, recovering from the pandemic and rebuilding daily routines is a longterm project. It has only been within the last eighteen months that the kids in my house have really started to live the lives of...
Each year I post a list of the most read blog posts of the last year alongside a list of the books that I read over the course of the year. This year I’m a bit late in getting this material online. Nonetheless, here’s the list of my most read blog posts for the last year: Through Eyes That Have Cried (Houston) Statement at the Houston City Council Meeting: Repeal the anti-Food Sharing Ordinance...
In a recent article in Race & Class I trace the origin of the "great replacement" conspiracy back to the Doctrine of Discovery.
An account of the first extant sermon from the Unitarian Universalist tradition preached in Houston, Texas.
The list of books I read in 2023.
An oral history with Dr. Mtangulizi Sanyika
My review of Marc Loustau's Hungarian Catholic intellectuals in contemporary Romania: reforming Apostles has just been published in Politics, Religion, and Ideology.
A brief reflection on my time at Harris Manchester College and the nascent effort to establish a Centre for Unitarian and Dissenting Studies.
Populism is a political ontology, in which political being is centered on the question of collective identity. It is also a political theology embedded within constitutional democracy.
We are Sitges. We got here last week and we’ll be here for another eleven days or so. We are using it as a homebase while I write and we take a variety of day trips around Catalonia. Sitges is one of those places that’s been described as “the crown jewel of the Mediterranean.” It is a beautiful beach town about 40 minutes South of the center of Barcelona by train (the train leaves every 15...