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A Substack post on bishops, presbyters, and deacons in the letters of Ignatius. And yes, 𝔚𝔥𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔅𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔡, Ignatius of Antioch existed. open.substack.com/pub/lucadansel…

A substack post on Polycarp and his "ordinary" letter to the Philippians. It's interesting to note that we have writing to Polycarp, from Polycarp, and about Polycarp in the 2nd century (Ehrman). More on scripture, heresy, and Church governance: open.substack.com/pub/lucadansel…

A substack post on Papias, an enigmatic bishop from the first generations of the Church who mistrusted written records... open.substack.com/pub/lucadansel…

A short post on the balanced Christology of Ignatius of Antioch: open.substack.com/pub/lucadansel…

✨ISSUE FOURTEEN IS HERE!✨ FICTION by Rachel St. Ours & Regina Rae Weiss POETRY by Luca D'Anselmi, Maggie Doyle, Hanna Han, Polina Kouzminova, Pippa Little, Angie Macri, Anne Ryland, & Jennifer Saunders emptyhousepress.com

Really excited to have a new poem out in Empty House Press with a photograph by Leah Damgaard-Hansen. Thank you to the editors Cara and Erin for such a beautiful issue! Also check out more of Leah's work at leahdh.com

"The soot chute emptied from the fireplace hatch, / from the room of living, down to a door, / thick, cast-iron [...]" — Luca D'Anselmi (Luca D'Anselmi) in EHP Issue Fourteen emptyhousepress.com/issue-fourteen…

"Orator" by #LucaDAnselmi The Hopkins Review: poems.com/poem/orator/

Today’s Featured Poem: “Orator” by Luca D'Anselmi from The Hopkins Review 17.4. Read here: poems.com/poem/orator/

“…toward the sweating men, the roaring youth / who lap at words like water from the rock.” — Luca D'Anselmi

Today’s Featured Poem on Poetry Daily is “Orator” by Luca D'Anselmi: hopkinsreview.com/press/thr-feat…

"It was an old part of the boneyard, people with eighteenth and nineteenth-century surnames: Barnabus, Mutterer, Winthrop, Cornelius." — Regina Rae Weiss (Regina Rae Weiss) in EHP Issue Fourteen emptyhousepress.com/issue-fourteen…

Check out my brother's Carlo D'Anselmi recent work from Good Morning Zurich! at Fabienne Levy Gallery. As always such beautiful control of color and figure. <3 fabiennelevy.com/artists/67-car…

A post on Ignatius of Antioch and the real presence, clarifying some aspects of his Eucharistic theology: open.substack.com/pub/lucadansel… Providing a very different view, see the recent video from The Bible In Context .

Lecture on second sophistic and Atticisms. Fellow Classics student: "why were they so fixated on the past? The world has evolved!" The irony.

Fantastical and marvelous selfscapes in "Swimming Between Islands" by Charlotte Eichler in Poetry Daily. "Swimmers will come to your house / to borrow your eyes."

Excellent cooking is like excellent poeming: there are reasons for every ingredient.

A beautiful poem by M.I. Devine in Nimrod Journal . And a lesson in creative allusivity. Thank you. This got me. "He was full of sleep and not enough."

I am deeply saddened by the news of Jane’s death. I never met her, but she was a boisterous, provocative, funny online penpal, and, most importantly, a poet of rare lyric grace. It was an honor to publish the poem below earlier this summer.