Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links, June 18, 2021
+ A novel of Caryll Houselander, mystic practitioner of the art of suffering well, to be republished soon
+ Raymond Chandler on captivating readers with emotion and well-placed adjectives, and other quotes from his letters
+ Simone Weil on what it takes to write about imaginative evil without causing evil
+ Rabbi Shalom Carmy on creativity and serving God
+ A review of The Five Wounds, which, according to Amazon, was “Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by Oprah Magazine, The Week, The Millions, and Electric Lit”
+ Joshua Hren writes about artful irony that “gives a damn.”
The Certainty of Things Not Seen: Powerlifting and Christianity
The ancient Greeks did more than just play sports. They wrote poems of famous sprinters, throwers, and wrestlers. They sacrificed to the Olympian gods so as to endow them the strength needed to win in both competition and at war. Followers of Plato saw physical training innately bound up in the idea of living a philosophically-rich life.
Marvelous, Medieval Margery
This is the way of lovers who grow to be like each other. They talk about the same things. They love the same things.
Friday Links, June 11, 2021
The happiness of faults
Imperfection gives birth to love, and love gives birth to beauty.
Benedictus makes beauty accessible
A new resource from Sophia Institute helps bring the beauty of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass to a growing number of interested seekers.
Friday Links, June 4, 2021
+ A late for Lent reflection about the Liguori Stations + Innovative religious drama podcasts + James Matthew Wilson poem featured at a dive bar/pizza place + Joshua Hren, Henry James & the misuse of beauty +
Welcome to DT’s New Home
“The change is not just a matter of aesthetics (not that there’s anything trivial about that!), but rather the most visible among a broader set of initiatives that mark a new milestone in the journal’s history…”
Friday Links, May 28, 2021
The Letters of Magdalen Montague, Art is a Jealous God, Laurus, and more.
Friday Links, May 21, 2021
writing w/o aplogetics, poetry, fabric..
Tissot: The Ascension as Seen From Below
James Tissot's illustration and commentary.
Tissot: The Ascension as Seen from the Mount of Olives
James Tissot's illustration and commentary.
Let the Dreamers Come to Me
Friday Links, May 7, 2021
News about some doings of Dappled Things' Friends
A Tribute to Beverly Cleary
Forming the moral imagination
Pandemics, Friendship, and Empathetic Imagination
A conversation with novelist Jim Shepard
Friday Links, April 30, 2021
Regina Caeli
Exploring the Marian Hymn for Between Easter Sunday and the Saturday after Pentecost
Why tradition is not a museum piece
It's for the young
Friday Links, April 23, 2021
Catholic lit; comic heroes of color; El Greco, &c.