Undusted Texts

Though this blog was not created until 2024, it is really just a new coat of paint and a new sign for an old house.  That house is the blog θησαυρος της εκκλησιας (Treasures of the Church).   Begun in 2011, under the pseudonym "Wolfsbane," in the midst of my college years, it was, as my introductory post declared, originally a spot to post my translations of Fray Luis de León (which only resulted in about three posts).  More widely, its goal as "to reveal the little-known treasures of the Church," to document "my journey of exploring the countless gems that can be found throughout the Church's long, long history."   Though the Luis de León angle died out quickly, I continued to try new projects, resulting in things like the Church Documents Index  and the Iconic Icons series , as well as more inchoate projects like the Byzantine Psalmody series.  Though many of these projects involved work and writing on my part, this was not the case for everyt...

In order to make this blog a better hub for all of my work, I have added a new page with links to my Publications and Unpublications , that is, draft papers.  Most of these publications are articles at the Homiletic & Pastoral Review ; a few are conference papers, which I have uploaded to Academia.edu.   I have also begun uploading some draft papers, or papers for which I don't think I'll ever find a publisher.  Each paper will be added to my Publications and Unpublications page once I have linked it. In my slow process of revising the layout of this blog, I have added this new page to the main navigation bar, and I have removed links to two prominent blog posts: "How to Discuss the Eastern Church: A Grammatical Primer," and the Table of Contents to my Church Documents Index.  The grammatical primer was written over a decade ago, and--though I have not yet taken time to review it--I assume I made some errors in it.  The Church Documents Index has not been ...