Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
When the Bad Guy Samaritan Loved His Jewish Neighbor
Diamonds in the Rough
Love among the ruins. And, in Brooklyn.
Let's Censor Nothing
Empathizing with Demons
The nuts and bolts of "purifying the source"
We are the Muriel Spark Set
Spark creates the anti-Dead Poets Society
Vending Art
Meet the Art-o-Mat
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Art and [Moral] Ambiguity
When what you crave can hurt you.
A St. John’s Eve Dream
American Babel
Or, how to speak in tongues.
A Piece of Mawkish Sentimentality
Reading Jonathan Franzen's novel Purity.
Truth, moral insight, and creeperdom in the big novel of 2015.
When a Royal Physician Killed a King
A murder of convenience.
Reading Backwards
Discovering children's literature as an adult
“Only needs a smack or so.”
Beyond the Spotlight Part III (or, intervention)
Against the unChurch
On Moral Fiction: a response to "Purifying the Source"
Bishop Kung Was Tricky That Way, and Other Stories of the Saintly, Stubborn, Persecuted Ignatius Ping-Mei Kung of Shanghai
To quote Fulton Sheen, "The West has its Mindszenty, but the East has its Kung."
Purifying the Source
"What has Rome to do with Iowa City?": appreciation and response
When it comes to Catholic culture, we have life rafts to build.
Happy Shakespeare!
The best of the Bard.