Collected here are articles and reviews that have appeared in print, as well as a presentation of my books. There are a few interviews and some sound material, notably my reading of the Gospels in Greek, a project that remains work in progress.

Books
Reviews
Articles
Conversations
Readings
Letters

Bertoniere, The Monks of Spencer

8 October 2009 Cîteaux - Commentarii cistercienses
The nature of Benedictine ‘stabilitas’ as fidelity to a faith-reality embodied in a human group, not to an edifice, is examined from various angles throughout the book. Continue reading

‘Put Nothing Before the Work of God’ (RB 48): Why Not?

1 January 2009 Cistercian Studies Quarterly 44:1 (2009)
To Queen Michol peering from her window, the extravagance of the monastic office - the time it claims from profitable work, the space it occupies in our Rule, its songs and ritual - can seem preposterous. But she was destined to die without progeny. Continue reading

Towards the Authentic: Reflections on Music, Truth, and Desire

16 June 2006 The Downside Review 438 (January 2007)
Sacred music, like sacred texts and sacred rites, is a truth-bearer in worship. Mediocrity and compromise should no more be tolerated in this domain than in any other. Continue reading

The Demonic Gaze: American Beauty

2 May 2001 St John's College, Cambridge
The ‘demonic’ gaze usurps a divine perspective in presuming to appropriate for its own good pleasure things and beings created to be themselves. Seeking possession rather than communion, the ‘demonic’ grabber upsets a divinely instituted balance; like the king of Babylon, he will sooner or later see the writing on the wall. Continue reading

Paulina Mariadotter: An Age of the Life of Love

14 January 2001 Priests and People
Surrounded by a self-destructive culture terrified of death, western Christians must face essentials: Do they believe in Christ’s resurrection? If the answer is yes, who knows what might happen. Continue reading