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December 2014

December 16, 2014

Ruined by Books: TOP10 Catholic Studies Books

Some time ago I started a series of topical TOP10 lists. I got as far...

December 09, 2014

The Torture Report and the Antichrist

One story stood out from the morning TV buzz today: the United States is preparing...

October 2014

October 02, 2014

Walker Percy Fan Delivers Jefferson Lecture on Uncle Walker!

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the famous Walker Percy Jefferson Lecture "The San...

September 2014

September 18, 2014

Ruined by Books: My TOP10 Novel List

Thinking through betrayal reminded me of Hermann Broch's novel The Sleepwalkers. It's one of those...

September 08, 2014

What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Art and Revelation?

Will Beauty Save the World? The slogan “Beauty will save the world” is increasingly invoked...

September 04, 2014

Nudus Nudum Christum Sequi: On Christ’s Genitalia

Ever since graduation my mornings have followed the routine of studying actively-engaged anthropology. tears, poop,...

September 03, 2014

Christ Is No Longer On Top

The reactions to yesterday's intentionally provocative post on the centrality of the resurrection of the...

September 01, 2014

Holocaust in Context: Auden’s September 1, 1939

Faulkner wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past," in his Requiem for...

July 2014

July 08, 2014

Were Catholics Targeted by the Conservative Culture Wars?

Rachel Held Evans has finished her third book and is back to blog writing. I...

April 2014

April 23, 2014

James K.A. Smith: Seeking Transcendence in a Secular Age

Isn't it strange how life seems to offer almost as many connections as a...

April 19, 2014

Holy Saturday: Death is Here to Teach us Something

Yesterday I happened upon a PBS interview with the poet Christian Wiman author of the acclaimed...

April 02, 2014

John Paul II, the Artist in You, and Coleridge

John Paul II died nine years ago today. His background in the theater and...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Liturgy, Fanny Howe, and the Horrors of Reality

I'd like to enlist the poet Fanny Howe in the service of defending Eagleton's characterization...

March 25, 2014

Squishy New Atheist Pieties Miss Gospel Love’s Ruthless Demands

What's the difference between this... ...and this? And what do both of them have to...

February 2014

February 18, 2014

Imaging God Badly

How does the dynamism of analogy reflect itself in the ways we go about imaging...

February 13, 2014

The Epochal Break of the Romantic Imagination

Valentine's Day is around the corner and it's difficult to avoid talking about something romantic....

August 2013

August 15, 2013

Fresh Caught Fish II: Top 10 Living Religious Novelists

Paul Elie says all the great novelists are dead. But he's dead wrong! I've recently...

August 14, 2013

Fresh Caught Fish: Top 10 Living Religious Poets

The last installment of this blog broached Paul Elie's claim that fiction has lost its faith. Elie's...

August 12, 2013

A Fish Rots from the Head Down (On Paul Elie and Secularization in the Arts)

The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) is widely read in American poetry circles. It wouldn't be...

July 2013

July 07, 2013

Kristeva: The Obscenely [Baroque] Catholic Difference

What I love the best about the passage I'm going to quote at length below...