Saints for History’s Darkest Times

Saints for History’s Darkest Times

The darkest times of history often bring forth the greatest saints. In the course of writing To Crown with Liberty, I noticed entirely too many similarities between our own era and the years leading up to the French Revolution. I wrote a scene about mob violence, and...

The Indomitable Nuns of the French Revolution

If it’s true, as the philosophers say, that eternity is the experience of all time at once, then surely writing about history is one way to practice for heaven. I’ve seemingly lived a good chunk of my recent life in the eighteenth century, and I can now expound upon...