Another spin around the sun is in the books; another year draws to a close. Looking back over these past twelve months, I am particularly grateful for the opportunities I’ve had to travel and share about my work in a variety of places. From teaching seminary courses at Trinity Anglican Seminary (Ambridge, PA) and Reformed Episcopal Seminary (Oreland, PA) to leading teacher and parent training events at The Stony Brook School (Stony Brook, NY), Providence Classical Christian School (Oxford, GA), and The Stonehaven School (Marietta, GA), it has been a full but rewarding year. As always, the chance to meet like-minded folks in each of these contexts makes the travel especially worthwhile.

My primary project this year was writing my forthcoming book Teaching for Truth, Goodness, and Beauty: Medieval Voices for the Future of Classical Christian Education. Envisioned as a sequel to Teaching for Spiritual Formation (Cascade, 2022), this work focuses in particular on advancing a vision for classical Christian education, which is one of the fastest-growing and most exciting movements in American education today. I am particularly excited to share that the foreword will be written by none other than Nadya Williams (author of Christians Reading Classics, among many other excellent works). Clocking in at about 67,000 words for the main text, the book explores how we can cultivate truth, goodness, and beauty in students through classical approaches to the liberal arts, Scripture, prayer, virtue formation, art and music, and community life. I pray that it is a blessing to many schools. The book is scheduled to be send to my editor at Cascade in early spring, so I’m thinking we will have a publication date in late fall 2026. Preliminary table of contents is as follows:

In other news…ever wish there were a distinctively Anglican catechism for children in the ACNA? Well, 2026 might be your lucky year: I’ve been hard at work with a much larger team of people on a provincial children’s catechism that will help fill this void. More announcements to come, but for now I just wanted to flag that as a second major project demanding my attention this year. Hopefully by summer 2026 we will be in a place to share more about this exciting news as we move through the approval processes and get closer to the catechism’s public release.

In case you missed it, I authored some short pieces for Logos (on lectio divina, for which see here), Credo Magazine (on Anselm, for which see here), and Word & Sacrament (on the dangers of doing theology, for which see the Winter 2025 isue here). An article based on my Oden Lectures at TAS will soon be published in the Cranmer Theological Journal. I’ve come to really enjoy writing shorter pieces as a respite from the longer research projects.

To all of you who have followed or supported my work in 2025, many thanks. May our Lord Jesus Christ fill you with all truth, goodness, and beauty in 2026.

Kyle