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2026 29

  1. News, events and postage stamps
  2. Hermit Crab Press
  3. The Monthly Salon: October
  4. Pygmalion’s Passion
  5. An Events Update
  6. Come Walk With Me
  7. The Monthly Salon: September
  8. The Trap
  9. The Hermit and the Pilgrim
  10. The Wake: Questions and Answers
  11. The Monthly Salon: July
  12. The Wake is here! (again)
  13. Kingdom of Trees
  14. The Monthly Salon: June
  15. The Return of Buccmaster
  16. The Monthly Salon: May
  17. A Map of the Abbey
  18. Once and Future Saints
  19. The Monthly Salon: April
  20. The Easter Rising
  21. The Monthly Salon: March
  22. Splendour of Fire, Speed of Lightning
  23. In the Desert of the Heart
  24. Walk Away From The Sea
  25. The Monthly Salon: February
  26. Writers Against AI
  27. How to build a Goddess
  28. The Monthly Salon: January
  29. Going Under, Coming Up

2025 57

  1. The Advent Salon
  2. Of Slugs and Saints
  3. The Monthly Salon: October
  4. News, Events and Updates
  5. Escaping the Brave New World
  6. Restoring the Moral Economy
  7. The North American Thebaid
  8. The Hare and the Lamb
  9. Publication Day!
  10. The Butlerian Jihad
  11. 'The only way out is through'
  12. 'Modernity is a heresy'
  13. The Sacred Forest
  14. The Merrie vs the Machine
  15. 'They can't code this'
  16. The Machine Sessions
  17. The Nowness of Things
  18. The American Book Tour
  19. The Life Exchange
  20. 'Against The Machine': the countdown
  21. Zen and the Art of Bear Spotting
  22. News & Views: July
  23. Be Still and Know
  24. The Language of the Master
  25. News & Views
  26. The Voivode's Mosque
  27. God's Gardeners
  28. Saint ... Who?
  29. The Hawthorn King
  30. Radio Silence
  31. California Son
  32. The Monthly Salon: April
  33. The Easter Rising
  34. News, Events and Reading
  35. Knights of the Round Temple
  36. Prose and Principalities
  37. Get Thee to a Nunnery
  38. Coming to America
  39. The Burning Season
  40. The Monthly Salon: March
  41. A Wild Unreasoning
  42. Cathedral of the Moor
  43. Against The Machine!
  44. Splendour of Fire, Speed of Lightning
  45. Hermitess and Green Man
  46. Mad Monks and Alchemists
  47. She Came From A Fire
  48. The Norfolk Orient
  49. The Monthly Salon: February
  50. 'Such were the works of Walsingham'
  51. England's Nazareth
  52. The Vagabond King
  53. Matter Matters
  54. The Monthly Salon: January
  55. The Gulf and the Silence
  56. The Machine in the Garden
  57. Rise and Fall

2024 80

  1. The Monthly Salon: December
  2. Telling the Bees
  3. The Monthly Salon: November
  4. The Moses Option
  5. Donald and the Pincer
  6. Two British events
  7. The Monthly Salon: October
  8. Against Christian Civilisation
  9. The Everlasting Man
  10. Bring That Hammer Down
  11. Stumbling Towards Bethlehem
  12. The Sunday Pilgrimage
  13. Legends of the Fall
  14. On the Long Station
  15. The Monthly Salon: September
  16. Lost and Found
  17. Solace in Stone
  18. The Beast of Clare
  19. Into The Void
  20. News and Events
  21. Concrete Facts
  22. The Monthly Salon: August
  23. Veni, Vidi, Vici
  24. Orthodoxy For Beginners
  25. One in the Eye
  26. Lorrha Stories
  27. All the World is Myth
  28. Lost in Time
  29. Under the Faerie Hill
  30. The Monthly Salon: July
  31. Everyday Saints
  32. Bring me a Sword!
  33. Deepfake World
  34. The Monthly Salon: June
  35. Liquid Assets
  36. Fire in the Snow
  37. Island of Saints
  38. The Book of Wild Saints
  39. Brigid to Brigid
  40. Carved in the Ground
  41. The Way of a Pilgrim
  42. Lily of Ireland
  43. The Monthly Salon: May
  44. Sing Levy Dew
  45. Die Before You Die
  46. The God-Shaped Hole
  47. Mostly Armless
  48. Forthcoming Events
  49. And Did Those Feet?
  50. Well Beehived
  51. The Monthly Salon: April
  52. Covered in Birds
  53. Tinkers and Trout
  54. The Scriptorium
  55. Quacking Priests & Wedding Planners
  56. The Next Phase
  57. Freke of Nature
  58. The Monthly Salon: March
  59. The Forgotten Saint
  60. Empty Throne, Empty Tomb
  61. Patrick and the Pagans
  62. Wells and Bells
  63. Snakes in the Rock
  64. The Half-Finished House
  65. What is a Mother?
  66. The Monthly Salon: February
  67. Mr Power's Error
  68. A Short Note About A Mistake
  69. A Message For My Readers
  70. Sympathetic Magic
  71. Holy Ghost
  72. A Bird in the Hand
  73. Mary of the Gael
  74. Out of Egypt
  75. The Monthly Salon: January
  76. A Féchín Rumour
  77. The Sound of Wings
  78. What Lies Beneath
  79. Twenty Twenty Four
  80. Silent Mystery

2023 55

  1. Atheists in Space
  2. The Monthly Salon: December
  3. Green Natives
  4. The Storm in the Soul
  5. Secrets of the City
  6. Suffer Little Children
  7. Christmas Presence
  8. The Monthly Salon: November
  9. The One That Got Away
  10. Eadmund of Angland
  11. Some Deep Peace
  12. The Lions' Grave
  13. All is Ruin
  14. The Blizzard of the World
  15. Back to Basics
  16. Mountain Solitaire
  17. Bridget and the Eel
  18. The Monthly Salon: October
  19. Mountain Gothic
  20. Old Nick's Offer
  21. Witches in the Woods
  22. Hubcaps and Lace
  23. 'The Waters No Longer Run Clear'
  24. Ocean of Coins
  25. Lives of the Wild Saints
  26. Waters of Colmán
  27. The Monthly Salon: September
  28. The Living Water
  29. A Word from the Artist
  30. Inis Cealtra
  31. Welcome back
  32. The Monthly Salon: July
  33. Into the Desert, Into the Woods
  34. The Tale of the Machine
  35. The Raindance
  36. Intermission: Coming Up, Laid Down
  37. The Monthly Salon: June
  38. The West Must Die
  39. Intermission: Digging Down
  40. The Monthly Salon: May
  41. The Neon God
  42. The Monthly Salon: April
  43. The Universal
  44. Intermission: news and events
  45. Two podcasts and some jellyfish
  46. The Jellyfish Tribe
  47. The Monthly Salon: March
  48. Intermission: News and Reading
  49. Intermission: a summer event
  50. Against Progress
  51. The Monthly Salon: February
  52. Intermission: Saints of the Greenwood
  53. Watch the Great Fall
  54. The Savage Reservation
  55. The Monthly Salon: January

2022 46

  1. Happy Christmas
  2. God in the Age of Iron
  3. Intermission: More Hoar
  4. Two Christmas Gifts
  5. The Monthly Salon: December
  6. The Story So Far
  7. Intermission: Six Interesting Things
  8. The Monthly Salon: November
  9. The Fourth Revolution
  10. The View from the Cave
  11. Intermission: In the Garden of the Mother
  12. The Monthly Salon: October
  13. There Were Giants In The Earth
  14. Ghosts in the Machine
  15. Intermission: Last Post for Christian England
  16. The Nation and the Grid
  17. The Monthly Salon: September
  18. Intermission: Monasteries of Romania #2
  19. Intermission: Monasteries of Romania #1
  20. The Basilisk Revisited
  21. August
  22. Keep The Home Fires Burning
  23. The Monthly Salon: July
  24. The Abolition of Man (and Woman)
  25. Coming up ...
  26. Intermission: Reading and Writing
  27. The Monthly Salon: June
  28. What Progress Wants
  29. The Monthly Salon: May
  30. When Swans Return
  31. In the Desert of the Real
  32. Chasing the Dragon
  33. The Apocalypse is Now
  34. The Monthly Salon: April
  35. An Anniversary Gift
  36. Down The River
  37. Splendour of Fire, Speed of Lightning
  38. Saturn's Children
  39. The Monthly Salon: March
  40. Kill All The Heroes
  41. In This Free World
  42. Intermission: Reading Matter
  43. The Migration of the Holy
  44. The Vaccine Moment: a free ebook
  45. A New Year Update
  46. Purge Me With Hyssop

2021 25

  1. The Vaccine Moment, part three
  2. The Vaccine Moment, part two
  3. The Vaccine Moment, part one
  4. Intermission: From The Library
  5. Exodus
  6. Intermission: The Machine Stops?
  7. End of Part One
  8. You Are Harvest
  9. Come the Black Ships
  10. Want is the Acid
  11. The Great Wen
  12. Do What Thou Wilt
  13. The Green Grace
  14. Intermission: The Green Martyrdom
  15. A Thousand Mozarts
  16. Intermission: Reading Matter
  17. A Monster that Grows in Deserts
  18. Intermission: The Scriptorium
  19. Blanched Sun, Blinded Man
  20. The Dream of the Rood
  21. Intermission: The Ineffable Light
  22. The Faustian Fire
  23. Intermission: The Empty Throne
  24. The Great Unsettling
  25. Under the spreading walnut tree