The Way of Beauty in Dante
Follow the gaze of Beatrice
Incarnate Thought
One day in a bookstore a college friend reached up to the shelf and pulled down Milan Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being. He spent a minute or two reading the first pages and then replaced the volume with a scornful shrug: “It’s a misreading of Nietzsche,” he said, referring to the book’s … [Read More...]
Slumming at Monday Night Bingo and Job News from the County
After I was laid off from my job as a technical writer at Sun Microsystems in 2004, I started but soon abandoned a blog called Outsourced, Off-shored. This story is from that blog. In the east coast where I'd grown up and in the midwest where I'd raised my children none of the churches I attended … [Read More...]
Why drama is so good for children
“There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?” - John 6:9 It’s the smell of paint, cheap black paint, that brings me to a place I love. I was smelling it now as I carried in the last load of costumes and sank quietly into the blue … [Read More...]
Friday Links, September 3, 2020
Links about art critic Elizabeth Lev, writers John Cheever, Georges Bernanos, and Ron Hansen. ‘Take risks on Catholic artists’: An interview with art critic Elizabeth Lev Ben Conroy at the Catholic Herald interviews Elizabeth Lev, daughter of Mary Ann Glyndon, former U.S. Ambassador to the … [Read More...]
Against Cultural Marcionism
“To paraphrase Flannery O’Connor, Flaubert’s fiction is of manners without mystery.” So wrote Santiago Ramos a few years back in a perceptive article in Image. I’ve read or heard similar comments from a number of young Catholic and Christian writers. The distinction is certainly valid—O’Connor was … [Read More...]
