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Timothy Larsen

Timothy Larsen teaches at Wheaton College and is an Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh University. He is the author of John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Christmas.

Turn! Turn! Turn!

Timothy Larsen   |  March 28, 2025

‘Current’ always was a vanity project

“For Wheaton”: Come, Let Us Reason Together

Timothy Larsen   |  February 25, 2025

An open letter to Eric Teetsel, the original signer of “For Wheaton”

An open letter to the signers of the “For Wheaton” letter

Timothy Larsen   |  February 23, 2025

A Wheaton professor weighs in.

A Symposium on Love

Agnes Howard, Timothy Larsen, Jon D. Schaff, Nadya Williams and Robert Erle Barham   |  February 14, 2025

Love’s complexities endure—and love does, too

The Full-Bodied Apologist

Timothy Larsen   |  February 7, 2025

Chesterton’s ‘The Everlasting Man’ is one hundred years young

Christmas in the Shire

Timothy Larsen   |  December 24, 2024

Have yourself a fantastical holiday

Our favorite essays of 2024 from other little magazines

John Fea, Eric Miller, Robert Erle Barham, Agnes Howard, Timothy Larsen, Dixie Dillon Lane and Nadya Williams   |  December 19, 2024

More of our favorite things!

Some of our favorite things I: Current writers and editors reflect on 2024

Agnes Howard, Timothy Larsen, Adam Jortner, Dixie Dillon Lane and Jim Cullen   |  December 17, 2024

These are a few of our favorite things from 2024.

Interview: Timothy Larsen on Twelve Classic Christmas Stories

Timothy Larsen and Nadya Williams   |  December 13, 2024

Timothy Larsen brings (more) Christmas (books) cheer!

The Many True Meanings of Christmas

Timothy Larsen   |  December 2, 2024

Lay down your arms. It’s time to celebrate.

J. D. Vance Is My Guilty Pleasure

Timothy Larsen   |  October 1, 2024

He is not a compassionate conservative, but I have compassion for him

Interview: Timothy Larsen on George MacDonald’s Diary of an Old Soul

Timothy Larsen and Nadya Williams   |  September 13, 2024

Timothy Larsen is the McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College. He is a Contributing Editor at Current and as of this summer, the author of four books on the nineteenth-century Scottish George MacDonald. This […]

The Last Christian

Timothy Larsen   |  August 16, 2024

Secularization and the future

Shakespeare’s Worst Plays

Timothy Larsen   |  June 4, 2024

When the Bard was off his game

REVIEW: Definitive Lives

Timothy Larsen   |  April 2, 2024

A story at the intersection of the OED and our quest for meaning

When H. G. Wells Found God

Timothy Larsen   |  March 1, 2024

A forgotten spiritual conversion

Professor Pope

Timothy Larsen   |  December 25, 2023

Joseph Ratzinger, always a scholar, transcended academe

I Believe in Christmas Angels

Timothy Larsen   |  December 21, 2023

Celebrating the second greatest Christmas film ever made

Netflix DVD RIP

Timothy Larsen   |  October 16, 2023

A fond farewell to the ritual of the red envelope

Lord Peter Wimsey Turns 100

Timothy Larsen   |  August 4, 2023

The golden age of detective fiction was a long time ago

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