Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links, July 23, 2021
Should Rome decide which art is suitable for churches?
Dante’s youthful handwriting discovered in examples of his student copywork.
Why we need stories, to teach morals without moralizing.
Friday Links, May 28, 2021
The Letters of Magdalen Montague, Art is a Jealous God, Laurus, and more.
Friday Links, March 19, 2021
Flannery, mapping the Church, a good doctor, & AI
Friday Links, March 12, 2012
The Word; poetry’s power; gift work’s value . . .
New Forms, Hot Priests
Woman falls for priest. Dramedy ensues.
Satire Is Powerful, But Sometimes It’s Not Enough
It's funny. But is it what we really need?
Friday Links, June 5, 2020
Links both serious and some not so serious.
Friday Links, May 22, 2020
Deep down questions—and other notable things.
New Forms, New Popes
On popes, tension & religious literacy.
The Handmaid's Trial
Some overdue thoughts on Atwood.
Everybody Worships
David Foster Wallace. Ten years later.
Everybody Worships
David Foster Wallace. Ten years later.
Superstar, Part II (or, bloom)
How much artistic license can the gospels take?
Dark Chocolate
Getting darkness in literature right.
This Pope is Young
Power is a banal platitude.
Art and [Moral] Ambiguity
When what you crave can hurt you.
Beyond the Spotlight Part III (or, intervention)
Against the unChurch
Beyond the Spotlight Part II (or, night time!)
Can we get past culture war?
Beyond the Spotlight Part I (or, taken to church)
A tip of the iceburg.
In the Spotlight
Anti-Catholicism or ugly truth?