Creating The Oblate’s Confession would have been impossible without the remarkable history of the English church and people written by the Venerable Bede in the late 7th century. Now, some 1,200 years after he lived, the Bede has been recognized for his use of chapters as tools of analysis and memory in the October 29 issue of The New Yorker. See The Chapter by Nicholas Dames, The New Yorker, October 29, 2014.