lørdag 31. juli 2021

Norup Church

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These days I am reading up on Danish church history for a couple of papers that I need to write in the course of the autumn, and this has br...
lørdag 24. juli 2021

On statues, and how not to defend them

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  June last year, I wrote a blogpost in response to the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol. Since then, I have followed th...
torsdag 22. juli 2021

A note on Utøya, ten years after

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Today at noon, my father, who is the verger of our parish church, had the bells ring in commemoration of the victims of the massacre at Utøy...
lørdag 10. juli 2021

Saint Knud Rex in glass - a twentieth-century rendition of Knud's murder

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  Today, July 10, is the feast of the martyrdom of Knud Rex. He reigned as king of Denmark from 1080 to 1086, and was murdered in the now-lo...
onsdag 30. juni 2021

Pope Leo II, a saint of Catholic identity

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  This blogpost was originally planned for June 28, but was delayed. The date of June 28 is the feast of Pope Leo II, who reigned as pope fr...
mandag 28. juni 2021

A personal update, and a new beginning

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  This is just a brief notification about a very happy piece of news from my own life: Ten days ago, I was hired as a postdoctoral researche...
tirsdag 22. juni 2021

Saint Alban in Odense, part 1 - introductory reflections on the Alban liturgy

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Today is the feast of Saint Alban, protomartyr of Britain, who was killed some time in the third century, when Britain was still a Roman col...