Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Liturgies of the wild
Martin Shaw's new book examines the value of myth and ritual
In the Middle of Things
Augustine’s Confessions and literary education
Friday Links
Muriel Spark’s Strange Brilliance; John Wilson’s Year in Reading; Caravaggio and Us; An Interview with Erin O’Luanaigh; “Green Questions” by Rachel Hadas & more
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.
Iona and Patmos: A Tale of Two Sacred Islands
Author Mike Dillon finds himself at the still point of a turning world.
I Would Rather Be a Saint Than a Great Novelist
How St. Augustine’s Confessions wrestles with and surpasses the Aeneid.
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