The Anglican Bibliopole marks out a moment of North American book life that should be written by a pen mightier than mine. Over the 30 years that ended in 2011, two gentlemen in two upstate New York farmhouses brought warmth and joy to thousands of souls through their ministry of…

An old Christian rule in the West is that one must arrive in time to hear the Gospel lesson in order to receive the Holy Communion. This is a mild rule, and an irreducible minimum. Communicants’ manuals from all streams of Christianity stress preparation for at least a week, and…

(This is a companion to my 2019 article in The Living Church, “Easter to Whitsun with Thomas Noyes-Lewis.” The illustrations are full-page panels from Noyes-Lewis’s compilation on the Gospels appointed on Sundays and other holydays in the Book of Common Prayer.)

Charlie Lovett, Lewis Carroll: Formed by Faith (University of Virginia Press), 2022, hardcover, illustrated, 324 pages. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is remembered today for his creation of Alice and her Wonderland, and less so for his work in photography, algebra, or the history of the word snark. He is still less…

Japan and Thailand share the curious distinction in Asia of never having been subject to western colonial powers during the great age of steam and gunboats. Each is justly proud of this, and the back-colonization through pad thai and sushi is now complete. A critical difference between the Thai and…

S. Scott Rohrer, The Folly of Revolution: Thomas Bradbury Chandler and the Loyalist Mind in a Democratic Age (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022), hardcover, illustrated, 247 pages. The old saw about the American Revolution as the Presbyterian Rebellion turns out to be in many respects true. The English Civil…