Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
All Our Loves Must Be Ordered to a Greater Love
A Thomist reading of A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Friday Links
On Being a 9/11 Kid; Remembering a Hero, 15 Years After 9/11; More than a Matter of Taste: A Conversation on the Moral Imagination; Eric Cyr: Live in Crosby, MN
Poetry Is the Language of Faith
The veiled nature of faith requires a metaphoric, symphonic language
Friday Links
How Can You Not Be Romantic About Baseball; The Back of the Book: The Poetry and Fiction of Sally Thomas; The Real Ideal; Epiphanies of Beauty; The Music and the Google Docs
The Un-Pursuit of Happiness
Thoughts from our editor Denise Trull on what Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow has meant to her.
Rome, Open City
Adam Seiler reviews Roberto Rosellini’s classic film.
Friday Links
How David Mason Makes Money Writing; Late Have I Loved Thee: Returning Home to Rome with St. Augsutine; Released from Countdowns; So You’ve Converted—What Now?; Poets and the faith Peter Steele
Joan of Arc and the Meaning of Life
For what purpose were you born? On man’s search for meaning.
Friday Links
Another man’s treasure by Steve Knepper; The Idea Of A Poetry Conservatory; Once Upon a Time on Mott Street; A Strange Meeting: Myron H. Broomell and Arthur William Ryder; Gauche by David J. Rothman
Falling In Love
Is the idea of romantic love and marriage the delusion of modern madness?
Friday Links
Many Must Have It by Ryan Wilson; The Perfect Mirror; Manifesto! A Podcast; The Honest Broker on An Uncanny Moment for Jazz Lovers
Do We Recognize Grace When It Appears?
Muriel Spark’s memento mori and Flannery O’Connor’s moment of grace.
Friday Links
The purpose of poetry is to tell us about life; The Poetry of Independence; Showdowns and shootouts; 2026 National Book Festival; The Writing Life: Cultivating Creative Habits; The Windhover Writers' Festival
Re-reading Carlos Eire
Confessions of an (Adopted) Cuban Boy
Friday Links
Announcing the Winners of the 2026 Jane Greer Memorial Poetry Contest; Read the Novels and Forget Everything Else; Will the cinema god forgive Nolan?; A Review of Call Out Coyote by Seth Wieck
Announcing the Winners of the 2026 Jane Greer Memorial Poetry Contest
Europe In These Times: Semana Santa
Experiencing Holy Week in Alicante, Spain
Friday Links
In memory of Jane Greer
Fiat et Forma
The Marian antidote to New Media malaise.