An Announcement and a Guest Post
A belated happy Easter (Χριστὸς ἀνέστη!) to all.
I'm writing with a quick couple of announcements as we enter Easter season.
First, I recently wrote a guest post for Paul Pastor on his Substack The Rose Fire. Paul is a poet, writer, and editor at HarperCollins, and he contacted me last year to ask if I'd write a review of David Bentley Hart's new book All Things Are Full of Gods. But since I was already writing one for Eclectic Orthodoxy, I had to decline. He did, however, suggest that I pitch something else to him in the future, which I did.
So, in March I sent him an essay about Lewis Mumford: what he wrote and why we need him. Paul liked it and posted it. You can read it at the link below.
Paul J. Pastor
Mumford has, of course, been a big influence on me, and I've been on a mission to stimulate renewed interest in his thought. I am very grateful for the opportunity to write this piece, and I'm very happy with how it turned out.
In addition, I have some additional news on the publishing front. My book on intelligent design, Designer Science, now has a publication date and is up on the NYU Press website.
C.W. Howell
We're in the final stage of production now, and the book is slated for publication this September (2025). We recently completed the index and the are doing the final proofs of the text. I also was fortunate to receive my first blurb, which came from Francis Beckwith. Beckwith both read the manuscript and provided incredibly valuable insight. He writes:
A significant contribution to the history of American religion and popular culture as well as the long-standing disputes over science and religion in the American context. One of the great virtues of this work is that its author is eminently fair in his treatment of the book’s most notable figures, drawing the reader’s attention to both their academic accomplishments and shortcomings. Because the public disputes over evolution in the American context have often been marked by vitriol and ridicule, with a tendency to label and dismiss, Howell’s presentation is a breath of fresh air. There is simply not a better historical account of the modern Intelligent Design movement.
I'll keep you all apprised as things get closer to publication date.
I plan to return to a long-simmering essay on Sallust soon, as well as C.S. Lewis's academic books (The Personal Heresy), but before that I might also wade into writing on The Last of Us and the way it retells the story of the Binding of Isaac (the show, sadly, less successfully than the game). So keep an eye out.
As always, thank you for reading.
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