Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links
Jonathan Geltner; Phil Klay, John Wilson in Prufrock on Rhonda Ortiz, Paul Baumann on Mary McCarthy, some Christmas verse
Beauty Will Make the World: Why You Should Support a Cause That Isn’t Urgent
If we are to have true progress in our time, don’t expect it to come from governments and technology companies. It was not Augustus in his well lit palace but Christ in his dingy manger who transformed the world.
Ghost of a Golden Age
A “hauntology” on Lebanon’s lost Golden Age.
Friday Links
with James Matthew Wilson, A. E. Stallings, and more
Write without ceasing
“Like the bright pinprick of the burning star of Bethlehem guiding us through the darkest nights of the soul in Advent, the fires of our vocations illuminate the path to the light of the Son. The wolves of loneliness will always be circling in the forest. The question is whether we as believers can kindle a fire bright enough to keep them at bay.”
The Lady on the mountain
“After mass, I stand in front of the Black Madonna and touch the sphere in her hand, pilgrims on either side of me. About 500 years ago, a man named Inigo, later calling himself Ignatius, laid down his sword in front of this statue after making a confession and praying through the night. He pledged his life to her.”
Friday Links
with Rowan Williams, Joseph Bottum, Joshua Hren of Jon Fosse, on Louise Kennedy, and Amy Wellborn
The Day a Student Accused Me of Gluttony
And placed me in circle three of Inferno.
Friday Links
with Clare Coffey, Matthew Milliner, Nick Ripatrazone on Laura Reece Hogan, Alex Sosler, Valerie Stivers on The Road to Stella Maris
The stones cry out
Karen Ullo writes about how, sometimes, no verbal signage is needed to recognize the violence of the past.
Friday Links
with Sarah Clarkson in Plough, National Sacred Art Exhibit contest, and Scott Beauchamp in Church Life Journal
ineffable... profligate... genuflect (?)
Amy Welborn meditates on an old note found in a second-hand book, considering how all the uncurated artifacts by which we are surrounded on a daily basis, even if they seem unconnected, weave threads of communion.
Friday Links
with Daniel Cooper, James Matthew Wilson on Michigan, W. H. Auden’s syllabus for English 135, Jackson Arn on The Sphere and Our Immersion Complex, plus preview of our next issue
Vintage Dappled Things: Select Reprints Now Available
Reprints of SS. Peter and Paul 2007, Mary, Queen of Angels 2007, and Advent 2007 are now available for purchase in our store.
What Does Christianity Offer?
Something a little different for our readers.
Friday Links
with John O’Callaghan at ND’s Fall Conference, Risking Enchantment: A Podcast with Rachel Sherlock, Rod Dreher & Diana Walsh Pasulka, Jack Butler in National Review
The Late Fragments of Charles Baudelaire
Baudelaire’s concerns and obsessions are transposed into the impersonality of art. It is when we turn to his life and fragmentary works that we recognize the effort and talent his art required of him, and also the wealth of frailty that he accrued after a lifetime of investment is frustration, vice, and self-abuse.
Friday Links
with Catholic Literary Arts, Carla Galdo, Front Porch Republic, Joy Clarkson in Plough
Missions
“I pulled the car up outside my father’s house and smelled a wood fire from the indoor stove. By the time I got to the door he had already opened it. I stamped my feet as he said “no bother” and soon I was sitting across the from the wood stove and watching him gather together some papers to show me.”
Friday Links
with Luke Coppen, Dana Gioia, Mary Grace Mangano, First Things, Esquire, Paul Pastor, and more