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November 2014

November 05, 2014

Girard: Assisted Suicide and the Further Intensification of Problems

My colleague Kathy Schiffer followed the Brittany Maynard assisted suicide case closely on her blog....

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Percy on Mental Hygiene: You Are Entitled to Your Depression

Octorber 5-11 was mental health week. You probably heard it mentioned on any of the...

October 04, 2014

Travel Elegy

Wislawa Szymborska, "Travel Elegy" from Poems New and Collected Everything's mine though just on loan,...

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 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...

August 2014

August 20, 2014

Tolkien’s Smaug of Money: Class Conflict in a Children’s Classic

My resistance to the Inklings is strong, but breaking down. Two causes stand behind my...

July 2014

July 16, 2014

Polish Poetry: Milosz, Herbert, & Kamienska on Suffering & Insight

Right now I have several friends who are going through extreme suffering. There aren't words...

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 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...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

What Makes Literature Catholic?

One of the main problems with current debates about the state of Catholic literature is...

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....

January 2014

January 31, 2014

The Catholic Imagination

I recently gave a talk to the Young Adults group at my parish. George Weigel used...

January 24, 2014

Everything Under the S(u/o)n: Von Balthasar's and Milosz's God Metaphors

Writing really is a process of discovery, a form of thinking. You don't know what...

January 16, 2014

The Taciturn God of the New Testament

I broached the theme of silence in my last post in an extended quote from...

January 11, 2014

Burning Heart: On the Augustinian Strand in American Music

“You stir man to take pleasure in praising you, because you have made us for yourself, and...

January 05, 2014

Lost in the Environment (Rather than Cosmos) of Commercialism

Lost in the Cosmos is one of those books that you immediately like, even if...

January 04, 2014

Subversive Orthodoxy Meets the Libertarian Preferential Option for the Rich

The writing of the last series of post has got me thinking about what I...

December 2013

December 25, 2013

TOP10: A Christmas Gift for Catholics from Wipf & Stock

The transformation of Eerdmans, a mostly Calvinist publishing company from Grand Rapids, into a publisher...

December 23, 2013

G. Wolfe: Eat (Cath-L)it Already!

I've done a fair share of writing on the fiction of a Catholic/Christian/Religious/(Whatever, so long...

December 11, 2013

The Strangest Thing in the Cosmos: Walker Percy

Communion and Liberation is a movement that's been close to the heart of the last...

December 09, 2013

Between the Icon and the Idol: What and Before Whom We Have Bowed?

Artur Mrówczyński-Van Allen is director of the Slavic Department at the International Center for the...

November 2013

November 21, 2013

Famous Atheists Who Weren’t Atheists 6: The Catholic Demarcations of Wallace Stevens

[Read about Sartre, Camus, Warhol, Hitchcock, and Heidegger in the "Famous Atheists Who Weren't Atheists"...

November 18, 2013

Finger of God's Hand We Own

There's a passage in the hymn "Veni Creator, Spiritus" that should get a rise out...

November 05, 2013

Books I've Cheated On 2 (& a Side Note About My Grandma): Fiction & Poetry

Autumn is the season for indulging in your regrets and voting. Sometimes the two activities...

November 03, 2013

Crisis of the Humanities: "Shakespeare’s not on trial. You are."

Cynthia Haven let loose yesterday over at The Book Haven with the piece "The questionable...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

Books I've Cheated On: Non-Fiction

I'm attempting to get back to blogging by tying it to my dissertation. Yesterday's post...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Science & Religion: Beyond the Ham-Nye Rye Sandwich

Don't let yourself be sandwiched between Ken Ham and Bill Nye. Their debate was a circus sideshow rather than a...

September 10, 2013

Richard Dawkins Puts Pedophilia in Perspective

Sex abuse is not one of the issues I want to write about, but sometimes...

September 02, 2013

Forthcoming Books for the God-Obsessed

Today's post features a rundown of the new and noteworthy books that will be reviewed...