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August 2016

August 18, 2016

TOP10 Books for Explaining Original Sin to Interested Nonbelievers

I am merely trying to say that there is a cultural danger inherent in any...

April 2016

April 04, 2016

7 Year-Old Theology: Hating Jesus is Easy, Divine Mercy Hard

Too much thinking about the family's key role in the New Evangelization makes family life...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

God? Not Available Right Now!

I think I first heard about the poet Anne Carson in Minding the Modern (read...

August 19, 2015

Negative Certainties Trump Scientific Facts Daily

It is easy enough to debunk the mythical origins of science in the Greek and...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

Romanticism & Reason: New Inklings Biography Authors Interviewed

========================================================================== Philip and Carol Zaleski are the coauthors of Prayer: A History and The Book of Heaven. The...

May 2015

May 24, 2015

What Are the 7 Essential Poems for Pentecost? +Pantheon Surprise

Pentecost with all its fire and surprises is conducive to poetic expressions. For whatever reason,...

May 15, 2015

B.B. and Franz: Drinking To Two Kings Who Died Yesterday

Everybody probably knows by now about B.B. King's death. Fewer of you might be aware...

February 2015

February 20, 2015

Incarnadine: Playful Poetic Sadness on the Edges of Religious Hope

Poetry is meant to be performed out loud, just like the liturgy—the connection between these...

January 2015

January 01, 2015

A Feast of Circumfession: TOP10 Reading Standouts From 2014

Today was formerly known as the Feast of the Circumcision. Due to sleep deprivation I...

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...

October 2014

October 04, 2014

Travel Elegy

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

September 2014

September 12, 2014

They Were Not Able to Separate the Soul From the Flesh

Finishing Theology of Transformation was one of those bittersweet reading moments: I was happy to...

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 19, 2014

Phenomenology, the Anxieties of Life, and the Mystery of Hope

It's finally time to write a post here at Patheos. I've kept busy the past...

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 27, 2014

Ode for John Paul II by Czeslaw Milosz

"Ode for the Eightieth Birthday of Pope John Paul II" by Czeslaw Milosz in New...

April 20, 2014

Resurrection Sunday: Whoever Believes That Should Not Behave as We Do

“Christ is risen.” Whoever believes thatShould not behave as we do,Who have lost the up,...

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...

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 11, 2014

Augustine Rocha n' Rolls

Confession: I'm not here to talk about rock n' roll... but Augustine still doesn't even...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

What Makes Literature Catholic?

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

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 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...

December 2013

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...

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...

September 2013

September 01, 2013

In memoriam Seamus Heaney

We pretty much have everything back in place here at Cosmos The In Lost. The...

August 2013

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...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

A True Opium for the People is a Belief in Nothingness After Death!

When was the last time any of you (who don't attend fundamentalist churches) heard a...