Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Dappled Things at the End of a World
Paul Kingsnorth has summed up the civilizational path we have been walking for centuries now as an attempt to create a machine that can replace God. Yet the more we act as little gods, the more our societies have sunk into a crisis of meaning. Read about DT’s marching orders for the next twenty years of the journal.
Advent Novena Meditation: Day 4
Reading for December 19.
Friday Links
Happy Birthday, Jane!; Caught in the Act of Greatness: Jane Austen at 250; Anthony Domestico’s Year in Books; Brown University’s Catholic Chaplain Remembers Ella Cook; Megan McArdle on The Brother I Lost; James Matthew Wilson on the Nicene Creed
Advent Novena Meditation: Day 3
Reading for December 18.
Advent Novena Meditation: Day 2
Reading for December 17.
In praise of bad drivers
Margery Kempe is whispering a failed call to sainthood in our ear.
The Advent Novena
Join us with your family and friends in praying this beautiful Advent Novena, which has become a yearly tradition for Dappled Things.
Friday Links
In these last days
What apocalyptic and dystopian novels can teach us about our faith.
Friday Links
Dappled Things at 20; Blue Walls Falling Down: A Review from Alex Taylor; Advent: The Playlist From Fr. Herman Majkrzak; An Interview with Daniel Cowper; A Quarrel With the World: Miłosz’s complicated Second World War
Humor and wisdom in Bergman’s Wild Strawberries
Another entry in our series on the Vatican list of recommended films.
Friday Links
In praise of poetic simplicity
John Donne, Dunstan Thompson, and the art of plain-style prayer.
Friday Links
Breaking Down the Walls of Time; The World Beneath the Couch Cushions; TS Eliot’s 20th-century nightmare; This 1,200-Page Poetry Book Affirms Seamus Heaney’s Towering Genius; The Translated Word; A Thrill of Hope: The Weary World Rejoices with Shemaiah Gonzalez
Harry Clarke’s window into Our Lady of Sorrows
Lanta Davis offers a meditation on a highly unusual artwork
Chemo dreams
Flannery O’Connor said that sickness is a place where no one can follow you
Friday Links
Richie Rich and Brighton Beach
Are we all poor little rich boys? Christopher Mari reminisces about childhood in America.
Friday Links
Chaffins: 4 Lessons from Solanus Casey;Climbing The Magic Mountain today Thomas Mann’s novel is an antidote to nihilism; Why I’ve started re-reading novels; Seeing Goodness More Clearly; Luma Simms interview Nathanael Blake on his new book Victims of the Sexual Revolution: How Sexual Liberation Hurt Us All; Wiseblood Books Fundraiser Critique Packages; Talk to Me in Long Lines
Death calls collect
On Muriel Spark’s under-rated classic Memento Mori, a fitting read for All Soul’s Day.