Thoughts from Home and Abroad

A sneak preview of the new issue of the St. Austin Review...  

A far-reaching and wide-ranging conversation on conversion, literature and tradition... https://youtu.be/E9ryKHzLoQE

Celebrating a little-known English saint and martyr... https://www.ncregister.com/blog/pearce-unsung-st-nicholas

High school students are welcome to join me for a live online course on one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies... https://caravel.homeschoolconnections.com/catalog/34055824

Following the way that poets and wise men have trod that leads to the Mother of God. Perhaps if we travel with them, we might also come to Bethlehem... https://aleteia.org/2025/01/06/journeying-to-bethlehem-with-two-poets-and-three-wise-men?utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_campaign=EM-EN-Newsletter-Daily-&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_term=20250107

Understanding Shakespeare's understanding of the divine music... https://rumble.com/v63ogjs-mwic-krtko-z-josephem-pearcem-13-kupiec-wenecki-stworzenie-boe-jest-symfoni.html

Homage to a heroine who fought the good fight with courage and conviction... https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/01/03/a-crusader-goes-home-an-homage-to-siobhan-nash-marshall/

Michael Kurek's new "English" Symphony weaves history, mystery and fantasy into a work of musical majesty... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/01/symphonic-england-michael-kurek-joseph-pearce.html

Try to imagine what a hymn to the Mother of God might have sounded like in the court of Alfred the Great. Imagine no longer! Close your eyes and enjoy this hymn in Old English to the Virgin... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FykZmH_aZiY