Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links
with Ian McGilchrist in First Things, Catholics Need Poetry, Luke Coppen & Bishop Varden, Nayeli Riano on T.S. Eliot, Ryan Wilson & Catholic Literary Arts, & Raffaella: A New Fairytale Ballet
Ash Wednesday and the comfort of death
A moving reflection by Kerri Christopher about miscarriage and hope.
Friday Links
Poems Ancient and Modern , Risking Enchantment talks about Poetic Vision: The Catholic Case for Everyday Poetry, Trinitarian Genealogies: Father, Son, and the Spirit of Modernity, The Roots of Knowing: A Dive into Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse's Novellas, Hunger by Narine Abgaryan
A writer’s catechism for the Lord’s Prayer
Angela Townsend offers a fresh perspective on the Lord’s Prayer that you won’t want to miss.
Friday Links
Teaching as a form of kinship
“The people who teach us claim us somehow. We often refer to what we owe them as a debt. But it isn’t a debt. It wasn’t participation in a transaction, not with the sisters. It was participation in a blood line. It wasn’t a transaction; it was a transfusion.”
Friday Links
with Shadowlands Dispatch, Climbing the Mountains of Modernity & Ekstasis and the Chicken Truck, The Honest Broker: Notes Toward a New Romanticism, Katy Carl reviews Why Do the Heathen Rage?, Collegium Institute & DT Global Catholic Literature Seminar on Jon Fosse
How (not) to run an art competition
Daniel Mitsui explains why he won’t participate in the art competition sponsored by St. Peter’s Basilica and recommends that you don’t, either.
Swift Going
Peter Bast explains how attending a Taylor Swift concert is the closest we’ll get to participating in a Viking berserker attack, along with offering a lengthy meditation on crowd dynamics, the nature of the modern music industry, and the road our current civilization path is taking us (we might not want to go).
Friday Links
A road less taken on Maui
In a world of bucket lists and tourists traps, perhaps a tiny church, a churchyard, and solitude are all we need.
Friday Links
with a poem from Steven Searcy, ND conference with JMW, Joshua Hren, J. C. Scharl, Paul Pastor, Paul Krause on Jane Austen, Dwight A. Lindley III on Homer, art from Maura H. Harrison
The Illustrated Word
St. Aethelwold’s Benedictional and the art of illumination
Friday Links
Friday Links with Paul Lauritzen on end-of-life dreams, Trevor Cribben Merrill: Three Lessons in Beauty, Phil Klay on a Wild Butchery of Souls ,Clark Weidner on Dostoevsky, Faith and Imagination podcast with Sally Read
Art teaches us how to see
There’s a whole realm of vision we’ve never noticed before. Do we really know what we see?
Friday Links
Jon Bishop: “An Arrival”; Joseph Bottum, Susannah Black Roberts interviews Makoto Fujimura, Matthew Milliner, Peter B. Kaufman: on Carlos Eire’s They Flew
Friday Links
Jonathan Geltner; Phil Klay, John Wilson in Prufrock on Rhonda Ortiz, Paul Baumann on Mary McCarthy, some Christmas verse
Beauty Will Make the World: Why You Should Support a Cause That Isn’t Urgent
If we are to have true progress in our time, don’t expect it to come from governments and technology companies. It was not Augustus in his well lit palace but Christ in his dingy manger who transformed the world.
Ghost of a Golden Age
A “hauntology” on Lebanon’s lost Golden Age.
Friday Links
with James Matthew Wilson, A. E. Stallings, and more