Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Fiat et Forma
The Marian antidote to New Media malaise.
Friday Links
Surely Some Revelation Is At Hand
Michael Martin’s new book offers a new way of thinking about magic, enchantment, and reality.
What a Surprise: There’s No Place Like Home
Adam Seiler’s ongoing series on movies from the Vatican’s 45 “Important Films” list.
Friday Links
A Year of Sonnets in the Key of Kees; On Discovering a New Weldon Kees Sonnet; No Country for Nihilism; Leo’s Augustinian Encyclical
A Pair of Walkers In Brooklyn
Author Christopher Mari takes a walk in Brooklyn
Friday Links
The Declaration at 250; Jane Kenyon & Acceptance; Leave Them Wanting: The Art of the Line Ending; Reading Moby Dick; Systemic Problems Can Have Individual Solutions: A Review of Freya India’s GIRLS®
Detective Stories and the Incarnation
The relationship between authors and their literary creations is often fraught. Yet it is precisely this relationship which is used as an analogy to describe God’s relationship to the human race.
The Lost Parish of American Art
For much of American history, art has functioned like a secular parish, but that parish is fast disappearing.
Friday Links
The View from Childhood book launch - a conversation with author, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell and Steve Knepper; The Whale-Road: On the kenning, the oldest naming-game we still play; Poetry Reading and Discussion with Christian Wiman; Who Is America’s Homer?; Hemingway Ate Here; Christians Reading Classics: Petrarch’s Canzoniere with A. M. Juster
Making All Things New
Magnifica Humanitas, the Arts, and Human Flourishing
Pears, Pride, Repentance
Why is it that we so easily commit iniquities in order to impress others?
Peace and the Sacred Heart
“I will establish peace in their homes.”
This is one of the promises Jesus made to 17th century French nun St. Margaret Mary Alocoque regarding those who practice devotion to his Sacred Heart. It is a promise that echos in my head frequently as I go about the business of raising six children amidst the chaos of a two-working-parent home.
Friday Links
The View from Childhood: An Upcoming Conversation with Angela Alaimo O'Donnell & Steve Knepper; Healing Modern Medicine; What is suffering for?; First Things: Third Annual Poetry Prize; Should the Lion Lie Down With the Electric Lamb?; Easy Writer
Archetypal Daddy Issues
Can Christian storytelling save fatherhood?
Friday Links
Paul Celan’s Via Negativa; The Cordial Catholic with Shemaiah Gonzalez; Tolkien and Tech; Hildegard, Tarkovsky, Citrus Trees; Cinema Paradiso and the sacrament of cinema; B. H. Fairchild ~ PoetryLA Interview Series
The Stories Are True
The Lord of the Rings, The Wingfeather Saga, and the role of the Christian fantasy author.
Friday Links
Magnifica Humanitas; Idols of the Valley; Real and the Unreal; Cheap Tradsploitation of “Yesteryear”; How Occultists Remade the World; "The Novel: A Survival Skill"
The Untethered Theology of Morrissey
Morrissey exemplifies the conundrum of post-Christian post-modernity: “I feel no pull towards the church, but I understand that there is nothing else.”
Friday Links
Frost Farm Prize Winner Announced; As of Fire: Poets and Pentecost; Sam Kahn: How I Learned to Read Again; Stories That Show the Examined Life Is Very Much Worth Living