Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
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.
Friday Links
Lydwine: Goodbye Home; Margaret of Cortona Repents; Art, Life, and the Sonnet: Angela Alaimo O’Donnell; On Literary Citizenship and the Secret to Small Press Publishing Success; James Matthew Wilson on Catholic Poetry and the Culture of Beauty
Are horror movies prophetic?
Mike Schramm offers an apologia for the horror movie genre.
Friday Links
A.E. Stallings, Luke Stromberg, and Nicholas Friedman at Head House Books; New Verse Review Halloween Party; Titus Techera on Why Novels Used To Matter, And Still Can; Concerning the Death of Catholic Fiction: An Author’s Perspective; Thomist Poets with John Morris; Can the Humanities Be Saved?
Fertility
Beth Casteel explores fertility, spiritual motherhood, and how we define ourselves.