Miles Smith IV
@IVMiles
Historian of the South and the Atlantic World; college prof; lover of sports-ball; North Carolinian always, Michigander by choice; wife-guy; rt≠endorsement.
would hate to be a winged creature flying into this room
Thanks for the music, Ozzy Osbourne - Rest easy
Christopher Lasch in his great little book about writing, PLAIN STYLE, on the passive voice: "Precisely its anonymity endears it to bureaucrats, who wish to avoid responsibility for their decisions"
Update: @ReallyOldLife is using air quotes and Im having an Arnold Palmer. Things are getting crazy.
Recording another episode of the Paleo-Protestant Pudcast with @ReallyOldLife andDr. Korey Maas. This week we're chatting about @scottyenor's piece of ecclesiastical organizing at @AmReformer. Interesting piece, and a lot of interesting discussion.
In case you missed being here with us, here's the report of what we did (business meeting minutes to follow soon): simmssociety.org/2025/07/22/rep…
Wish you were here (at the annual meeting of the William Gilmore Simms Society).
Must political thought be divorced from theology or informed by it? @BartschKayla talks about Hume's famous statement, "reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions" in her review of Aaron Alexander Zubia's new book "The Political Thought of David Hume."
Covenant Seminary is pleased to announce @DZRishmawy as the featured speaker for the 2025 Francis Schaeffer Institute Conference: "Divine Holiness: The Neglected Apologetic in a Pagan Age." 📅 Sept. 12–13 📍 Rayburn Chapel, Covenant Seminary Learn more: covenantseminary.edu/news/fsi-confe…
I C Y M I: Yesterday I wrote about ekphrasis in THE SHIELD OF HERAKLES and Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" over at @AdFontesJournal. The Paradox of Ekphrasis adfontesjournal.com/ej-hutchinson/…
Recording another episode of the Paleo-Protestant Pudcast with @ReallyOldLife andDr. Korey Maas. This week we're chatting about @scottyenor's piece of ecclesiastical organizing at @AmReformer. Interesting piece, and a lot of interesting discussion.
The theological ignorance on this app never fails to amaze. Luther, Calvin, & others all understood their reform movements as a return to ancient forms of Christianity, over against Catholic corruptions. Even the most sectarian anabaptists saw themselves in those terms!
American Protestants don’t need to turn to “ancient communities” for their faith. They only need the Bible. That is enough. It’s all there is, in fact. All the other garbage by cosplaying latter-day Fr. Coughlins and Third World accounts is an anti-American, sectarian op.
Doing the Trump religion section of summer reading. Got Paula White covered. Whats John MacArthur's most political book? Any one know?
Gentle pushback. Protestants historically--as opposed to modern Evangelicals--understood they needed the Fathers, natural law, tradition, and other sources of truth. Scripture alone was *finally* authoritative, not but not the *only* source of truth and authority.
American Protestants don’t need to turn to “ancient communities” for their faith. They only need the Bible. That is enough. It’s all there is, in fact. All the other garbage by cosplaying latter-day Fr. Coughlins and Third World accounts is an anti-American, sectarian op.
An expansive new book contextualizes what is popularly accepted as the starting point of American religious history—the seventeenth-century arrival of colonists—in a longer and wider frame of time and space. Read all about it in Arc: arcmag.org/religion-in-th…
My book "The Mongol Storm" offers a history of the Mongol invasions into the Middle East told from many different perspectives - Byzantine, Mamluk, Seljuk, Armenian, Ayyubid, Crusader etc. If you're looking for a summer read... @BasicBooks @BasicBooksUK
"So I think Brazil is a good example of where women have fought successfully to ensure that the state is supporting women in their culturally subscribed roles and responsibilities.." fivebooks.com/best-books/nic…
Here's a talk I gave at UATX on "free speech" that may interest you
youtu.be/yY6OuO2f-mA?fe…
Thanks @jadykoch! My turn to preach this Sun. With the help of Rowan Williams, Melanchton, Luther, Calvin and...Stephen Curtis Chapman, I push back on David Platt-style Evangelical and Roman misunderstandings of the doctrine of vocation. We're free to serve God in so many ways!
Great sermon!
I’m very proud to join these outstanding teachers and scholars in the 2025 faculty cohort @ufhamilton. Big things are happening in Gainesville. news.ufl.edu/2025/07/hamilt…
This is a major get for the Hamilton Center. Best wishes to @JamesWHankins1 on his next chapter at @UF.
The University of Florida is the new leader in the study of Western and American civilization. So-called elite universities have abandoned the study of Western culture and politics over the last 15 years, and that betrayal has given other institutions the opportunity to create…
My beloved colleagues @IVMiles, @oldlife, @ScotBertram, and @MarkMoyar make me a better person every day of my life.
If you’re a Catholic, name a Protestant who’s made a positive impact on your life. If you’re a Protestant, name a Catholic who’s made a positive impact on your life.
For me it’s easy. @bradleybirzer and Joseph Ratzinger are two Catholics who have deeply influenced my life in overwhelmingly positive ways.
If you’re a Catholic, name a Protestant who’s made a positive impact on your life. If you’re a Protestant, name a Catholic who’s made a positive impact on your life.