Just watched 'Surprised by Oxford' (Surprised By Oxford), the enchanting true of Carolyn Weber , who became the first female dean of St. Peter's College. If you love Oxford or Cambridge, if you love C.S. Lewis, or just love love, you'll love this movie.

Tremendous privilege to hear Laila Mickelwait at the historic Cambridge Union, exposing the brutal truth: Porn sites are crime scenes, and a key part of human trafficking. Thank you Laila for your tireless advocacy & leadership! So fitting we’re across from Wilberforce’s college.

✨This is your invitation to step into the magic of Narnia!✨Join us for a Turkish delight reception, live Celtic harp, and three brief, enchanting talks featuring Sharon Jones, Sophie Jones, and me. 📍 3 March, 7:30 pm 🏛️ The Round Church, Cambridge 🎟️ Entirely free!🦁❄️

Looking forward to being with you for this event!

We have two exciting papers coming up tomorrow from Tomas Brown (Cambridge) Tomas Brown and Anita Hoffmann (York) The Apothecary's Wife – join us at 5 pm in the Library Seminar Room at St John's College! Followed by drinks and dinner...!

🚨 Great news! 🚨 Our Polanyi & Epistemology Symposium is full, but we secured a larger (and gorgeous) room for Professor Esther Lightcap Meek’s lecture! 🎉 More seats are now available! Register for 14 March: 🔗 forms.gle/TtUePWxzkJV1qk… Limited spots—please help us spread the word! 👏

Being a historian means travelling three hours to an archive, spending just 2.5 hours there before its closing, then commuting four hours home—wondering if anything I found will be truly useful.

An enchanting day at our Polanyi symposium! Max Baker-Hytch on religious epistemology, Esther Lightcap Meek on excitement & knowing, Tony Watkins on covenant epistemology in film. Grateful for my stunning St John's College, Cambridge rooms & attendees who flew to Cambridge from Colorado & Geneva!

Remember: ridiculous and foolish nonsense on this (regularly awful) site can be ignored rather than amplified.

If you have a heart for Christian ministry, love dreaming up world-class events, and would like to live and work in the magical, medieval city of Cambridge, England, I have a paid, full-time job for you.

Our Easter Term Card is now live! Join us at 5pm on 27 May, in person and online, for our first two papers by Anthony Zhang and Aelfred Hillman on restoration comedies.

I was thinking about AI, and this super creepy thought hit me. And I just don't see a world where it doesn't happen. joshgilmansblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/you… I wonder if folks like Elon Musk are aware, prepared, planning for, scared of this?

My brother Joshua Gilman on some creepy thoughts about the future of A.I. and he's almost certainly correct. Let me know what you think.

Who remembers

Canada > Cambridge

Not a fan of Gladiator 2, but I did like Pedro Pascal’s black-and-blue outfit

C.S. Lewis on how his way of writing about Christian doctrine for a general audience is "just a technique," adding "I’m desperately anxious to see it widely learned." Oct 1945 letter (Letters Vol 2)