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Revisiting the Classics: The Things I Love About C.S. Lewis
I love children’s literature. Good children’s literature reminds us why we read in the first place: the adventure, the joy, the thrill—and the deep contentment of coming home again at the journey’s end. And few do that better than C.S. Lewis. Not only is he clever and creative, he knows how to write for children in…
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This wasn’t entirely inevitable
Since last week’s local and devolved elections, I’ve heard a lot of the I-word floating around. How inevitable everything was. How voters were dissatisfied with the pace of change so it was inevitable that Labour would lose. I think Morgan had cards left to play—maybe Labour couldn’t have kept power, but she could’ve kept her…
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What I’m thinking about on the day of the 2026 Senedd elections
Today, Scotland and Wales both have devolved parliamentary elections. So, here in Cymru, we’re deciding who will represent us in the Senedd in Cardiff, our capital. Unless the polls have been incredibly mistaken, Labour’s century-long hold on Cymru is over. The question is: what’s next? Will UK’s answer to MAGA, Reform, come away as the…
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Love the silent, hate the silence (a letter to my high school Bible teacher)
It’s been twenty years since I left your classroom—the two years I spent working for A’s, memorizing Bible verses, perfecting an impenetrable worldview. Friday mornings, some of us would show up before class, coffee in hand, for conversations about faith and politics. I’ve thought of you. Have you thought of me? I think you must’ve…
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What the Middle Ages Can Tell Us About Racial Reconfiguration and Political Realignment Today
We are living in an era of renewed “flexible definitions,” when everything old is new again — “a moment in which cultural race and racisms, and religious race, jostle alongside race-understood-as-somatic/biological determinations — uncannily renews key medieval instrumentalizations in the ordering of human relations.” The Welsh weren’t the first cornered into renouncing their identity to…
