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November 2013

November 21, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Barton Cottage

As a house, Barton Cottage, though small, was comfortable and compact; but as a cottage...

November 20, 2013

Woof Guide to Obscure Catholic Music: Magisterium

Magisterium is an orchestra of sorts, with full choir, playing original compositions as well as...

November 19, 2013

Power of Three, by Diana Wynne Jones

A boy, son of the chief of a clan living in a mound on an...

November 18, 2013

New York’s Potter’s Field — UPDATED

So you're a big city, and people wind up dead, and they have no loved...

November 18, 2013

How To Call Someone To Repentance

Last month I spent many pixels criticizing a particularly bad and ineffective way of explaining...

November 17, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Direction

A couple of weeks ago I compared the interior life to a kitchen remodel. You've...

November 16, 2013

What Not To Read on a Fourteen Hour Flight

I wrote this review of Stephen King's Everything's Eventual in March of 2013. Reading this...

November 15, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: Thomas Aquinas

Dominican philosopher Scholasticism was his game Summa Theologica Aquinas was his name. Well, OK, I...

November 14, 2013

Discovering the Saints: Justin Martyr

My latest column for CatholicMom concerns one of the Church's first apologists, St. Justin Martyr,...

November 14, 2013

The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas, by Josef Pieper

In 1948, Josef Pieper published a selection of short texts from the writings of St....

November 14, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Talents

Music, landscape gardening, architecture—there was no start to his talents. — Terry Pratchett, Hogfather, speaking...

November 13, 2013

Woof Guide to Obscure Catholic Music: The Conventional Friars

The Conventional Friars are a Catholic novelty band started by six sophomores from the Franciscan...

November 12, 2013

What Love Looks Like

Rebecca Frech has a beautiful story to tell, and tells it beautifully: what a truly...

November 12, 2013

How Not To Get Traction

So a week or so ago I complained about a fellow who left an awful...

November 12, 2013

Three Parts Dead, by Max Gladstone

In Three Parts Dead, Max Gladstone paints a picture of a fascinating world where gods...

November 11, 2013

Mormons and Full Frontal Snogging — UPDATED

Now, with the relevant link. Leah Libresco discusses an article that asks, why is it...

November 11, 2013

Monogamy Fulfills Eros

Last July there was an article in the Atlantic that stated that Monogamy kills Eros,...

November 10, 2013

iPad Air: First Impressions

I've had an iPad 2 since they were first released, and I love it. It's...

November 10, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Feelings

When you embark on the interior life, you'll find that feelings come with it. Sometimes...

November 09, 2013

Visit the Bookshelf

I've added a new page to the menu at the top of the page: the...

November 09, 2013

On Puttering

This piece was first posted in February of 2003. I've been working myself pretty hard...

November 08, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: Bedlam Boys

In old times in England, "Tom O'Bedlam" was a name given to mad beggars (or...

November 07, 2013

Love, Sex, and other Inequalities

Katrina Fernandez, aka The Crescat, has knocked it out of the park with a post...

November 07, 2013

On Being a Conduit of Love

Receiving God's love is kind of like tuning in on a radio signal. God's love...

November 07, 2013

Words I Wish I’d Written: Bad Language

“Dang Brodell,” Emmett said. Actually that isn’t what he said. But about a year ago...

November 06, 2013

The Touchstone of Obedience: Medjugorge and Other Apparitions

I am not an apparitions kind of guy. I'm aware of Fatima and Guadalupe and...

November 06, 2013

The Dogmat Sez

Bad behavior on my enemy's part does not justify bad behavior on my part. Bad...

November 06, 2013

Sixtus A Capella

In response to this post, the geographically named Joe Washingtoncatholic pointed me at a genuinely...

November 06, 2013

Woof Guide to Obscure Catholic Music: Deacon Greg and the Dalmatics

New York cover band Deacon Greg and the Dalmatics is a regular sight on the...

November 05, 2013

Faith Ain’t Nonsensical

The common view of faith is well represented by this speech from Jack McDevitt's novel...

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