2024 in Review

2024 has nearly come to a close and its hard to not marvel at the providence of God for us at The London Lyceum. We celebrated our five year anniversary in August (listen here for a roundtable discussion reflecting on it). We exhibited at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in San Diego. We hosted reading groups, recorded podcasts and YouTube videos, published online essays, and especially published print resources. Speaking of print resources, our publishing house, Hanover Press, has seen incredible growth. It achieved introductory member status with the Association of University Presses, distinguishing it among its peers as especially committed to academic rigor. It rebranded it’s peer-reviewed journal from Theologia Viatorum to The Hanover Review and published two issues this year, with a third (likely) coming in January (Reminder that it’s not too late—yet—to submit a paper to our 2024 CFP which features a cash prize). It published Advice to Christian Philosophers, which featured many of the most important Christian philosophers. All of these publications saw world-renowned scholars collaborating and trusting us with their work. Many more works are in process as we seek to steward our resources well.

As an institution, while it’s a new year, we remain firmly committed to cultivating serious thinking for a serious church. We continue to retrieve the wisdom from analytic philosophy, the Baptist tradition, and classical Protestantism as confessed in the confessional documents of the Reformed tradition. We still think serious thinking requires seriousness about Christian virtue, so we persist in our efforts to cultivate an intellectual culture of charity, curiosity, critical thinking, and cheerful confessionalism.

As evidence of the continued excellent work from the London Lyceum, below are the top podcasts, essays, reviews, and YouTube videos from 2024. These may have been published before 2024 as the rankings are based purely on 2024 performance. There are no formulas here–just traditional views/reads/downloads (which is definitely a bummer for those published at the end of the previous year and a benefit to those published at the beginning of the year, but the Lord sees, knows, and rewards). Be sure to listen/watch/read any that you missed and send a thank you note to those who made it possible!

Finally, if you’ve benefited from our work in 2024, or years past and are looking forward to 2025 and beyond, consider making a one-time donation or becoming an exclusive podcast sponsor (as a 501(c)3 non-profit your donations are tax deductible). Your financial support makes more resources possible in the future, and you can be confident your investment will continue to support our mission of serious thinking for a serious church. For example, publishing books is not a free enterprise. It requires capital, and your investment supports the important mission of Hanover Press. You won’t find another organization as “lean” as us, creating the level of resources we do, without any paid staff. Every penny goes directly to the material cost of creating more resources. That’s because we all really believe in the mission. If you do too, join us.