I’m talking about the slideshow on the homepage, which the millions of visitors to this website are always clamoring to know, in exactly that word-order. Basically, if you’re a historian of European religion you spend a lot of time in and around some pretty cool churches (no matter what my church-weary students may say), and these are some of the meaningful places where I work or visit, which working or visiting I can’t always tell the difference between, to tell you the truth. There are a lot more than these, but these are the ones I happen to have decent pictures of. So after the initial blatantly self-promotional picture of me as a missionary somehow looking like I’m pitching my new book (go figure), we go to a grainy village scene in Belgium taken in the 1970s, then look across one of the inspiring lakes of the abbey of Park outside Leuven Belgium, then the abbey of Park before a storm (field side instead of lake side), then the obligatory gargoyle on the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, then a miracle-working chapel in a field in a hamlet of Brittany (that I’m fond of mostly because of my miraculous escape from an angry cow while walking across a field to the chapel), then a couple of heartbreakingly lovely parish churches in Sweden (where there are many lovely parish churches), then part of the otherworldly begijnhof in Leuven Belgium, then some very early medieval Christian buildings south of Dublin Ireland, and finally a classic Dutch church interior, in Delft. Oh, and the one here is from one of the many fantastic parish churches in Brittany.