Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Van Gogh’s Light Night
“Vincent’s ability to feel sorrow and channel it into something full of light is something I carry with me daily. Vincent taught me that when faced with suffering, we have a choice in what feelings we lean into and what we do with them.”
Friday Links
Denise Trull on The Inestimable Value of Genuine Praise; Madison Notes Podcast with Julia Yost; Grace Hamman on Sister Penelope in Expectation; Advent Carol Service: St John’s College Cambridge 1981 (George Guest); Dana Gioia on why Words Matter
It is good to be here
A profound meditation of the realities of being born via IVF
Friday Links
Clare Coffey: Skip the Cocktails This Thanksgiving; Steven Knepper: When Wonder Strikes: William Desmond's Metaphysics of Excess'; Manifesto! A Podcast: Is America Ready for a Religious Revival?; The Bobbie Sandwich ; Tongues of Men and Angels: Jazz, Sacred Music, & Creative Collaboration with J. J. Wright & Dana Gioia; Ryan Ruby on Why We Need Alexander Pope’s Wild, Weird Poetry Today
Down here in time, I grow strange
On the strangeness of life and figuring out if we really belong here.
An excerpt from First Make Mad
An exclusive excerpt shared with Dappled Things readers from Daniel Fitzpatrick’s new novel.
Friday Links
“Arraignments” by A.M. Juster; Paul Kingsnorth: “Against Christian Civilization”; Tyson Duffy on Reclaiming Ted Hughes; Book gifts for kids for this Christmas season from Dixie Dillon Lane; ‘Bonhoeffer’ Bears Little Resemblance to Reality; Mark Bauerlein: Science Says God is Real; The Really Real and the Liturgy
On Kneeling
Here’s a story in one sentence: curious essayist-of-faith creeps into her local Catholic Student Center one Wednesday to scope out its viability as a public writing space, finds herself consumed by the way devotion and tradition swim within the buildings’ walls.
Friday Links
Scratching Up the Sky by Ryan Daffurn; Joshua Hren reviews Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham; Alexander Raikin on A Pattern of Noncompliance; David K. Anderson on John Donne’s Devotions; Malcolm Guite on T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets; “Apophatic” by Amit Majmudar in First Things; LuElla D’Amico on Love and Marriage in the Age of Austen
Stains on the Altar Cloth
"From my vantage point behind the priest, I cannot help but notice the humanity of those hands... As those hands hold aloft the sacred host, I can’t help but notice the arthritic knuckles and smudges of ink left from signing checks and thank you notes. I shouldn’t be looking at his hands. I should keep my eyes on Jesus. But my attention, too, is weak and ordinary."
Friday Links
Shemaiah Gonzalez; Dana Gioia on Becoming a Catholic Writer; Daylight Moon by Daniel Patrick Sheehan; Matt Kirby on the WCU poetry conference; George Hebert; Steven Delay on Contemplation; Fr. Michael on John Keats’ epitaph
How the West Chester University Poetry Conference saved American verse
and became the prototype for the Catholic Imagination Conference
Autumn in New England
New Englander Angela Beatrice recommends three books for autumn.
Friday Links
Girlatee by A. M. Juster; An appreciation from Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen on Dracula; Medieval roundup from Art & Theology; A Venerable and Time-Tested Guide; “love keeps the world” – a poem by John McMeans
Bequeathed to air
On fame and immortality in Dante
Friday Links
Phil Klay on Faith beyond the culture wars; Nadya Williams on Home Libraries; Gregory Hillis: A Burial at Gethsemani; Money and the Roots of Moral Evil; Catholic Culture Podcast with A.M. Juster; Carlos Eire on The Trouble with Levitation and Bilocation; Boris Dralyuk on Sergei Bongart Pays His Respects at Forest Lawn
Not-So-Sweet Surrender
Wrestling with the concept of surrender with assistance from John Denver.
Friday Links
Cluny Journal; Joshua Hren on Houellebecq’s Annihilation; Patricia Snow on Taylor Swift; Rhonda Ortiz: Mama Needs a Hysterectomy; Echolocations: Thoughts on Poems by A.E Stallings; Jason Guriel: on Kay Ryan
Mama Needs a Hysterectomy
Rhonda Ortiz on women’s health, mental illness, and divine pedagogy.
On languor
Daniel Fitzpatrick discusses an under-examined theme in Brideshead Revisited - the languor. What are the conditions by which we might rediscover ourselves and come into to true rest and repose?