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Friday, February 27, 2026

The Whiteboard Where Big Things Live

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TL/DR: When life feels overwhelmingly large, progress comes through small, humane, and imperfect efforts — not through heroic productivit...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

Sooner or Later It All Gets Done: How History Emerges from Small Details

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One of the recurring themes in my scholarly life is “lots of little details.” That’s true of many things in life, of course, but this morn...
Friday, February 13, 2026

Threefold Illumination: A Nun’s Prayer After Communion

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The spiritual quest for three-fold illumination -- knowledge of self; knowledge of God’s love; and knowledge of (and surrender to) God’s ...
Monday, February 2, 2026

Practicing Death: The “Seven Last Words” at Thalbach

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The back-end of the Thalbach prayerbook (ÖNB Cod. 11750, 56v-60r) provides an early modern devotional adaptation of the “Seven Last Words...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Your desert island symphony

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In my Western Art Music seminar (a writing seminar, might I add), we started the term with the early symphony – a little Sammartini, a lit...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Cadfael’s Lepers on World Leprosy Day

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The leper house sits at the edge of the village – more accurately, beyond it. It’s a ramshackle structure, visibly outside the rhythms of ...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

The Editing Horizon: Shaping the Argument First

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The “write it perfectly” trap reached out and caught me yesterday. It’s hard to write when every sentence feels like it needs to be perfec...