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March 2014

March 19, 2014

Religious Education Congress

So I didn't get any fiction written last week; Jane got the flu, and then...

March 09, 2014

Whack-a-Mole and those Awful Middle Ages

Every so often I see someone on-line claiming that rationality started with the Renaissance, when...

March 08, 2014

Sticking the Corners

I had the good fortune to meet Jennifer Fitz in Dallas at the Catholic New...

March 06, 2014

The Rat Pushes the Button

Leah Libresco has a post about monitoring her "addictions" during Lent: the activities that seem...

March 03, 2014

Animated Shorts of Irish Folk Songs

Joseph Susanka has the scoop on a series of animated shorts, made in Ireland, to...

March 02, 2014

Dominicans and Jesuits Together, in Charitable Disputation

Melanie Bettinelli has put together two posts about maintaining a charitable disposition while arguing with...

March 02, 2014

On Wuthering Heights

Over the years I’ve had friends who believed in the healing power of crystals, a...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Writing the Scene

I've got a character, John St. Cloude, captain of the freezer ship Our Lady of...

February 25, 2014

UPDATED: I’m a Catholic Techie!

Says so. Right here. Every week Sarah Reinhard does a Catholic Techie interview at CatholicMom.com,...

February 22, 2014

On Starting a Blog War

Sarah Hoyt has some interesting remarks on how to conduct yourself in a blog war...most...

February 18, 2014

Why Not Fiction?

Kelly Sedinger has some pertinent commentary on my last week's post "Why Write Fiction", which...

February 06, 2014

St. Paul Miki and Companions

So I got up this morning, and looked at iBreviary and realized that today is...

February 05, 2014

A Really Bad Day At Work

Today, Joseph Susanka posted multiple versions of a song I've been enjoying quite a bit...

January 2014

January 14, 2014

The Measure With Which You Measure

Apropos of Monday's post about Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Mike Flynn (science fiction writer...

January 13, 2014

Crusader Cooties!

Seems that Tom McDonald's middle schooler brought home a handout about the Crusades, a topic...

January 02, 2014

A Crying Shame: Hand-made Flutes Destroyed by U.S. Customs

Via Slashdot: Boujemaa Razgui, a flute virtuoso who performs regularly with The Boston Camerata, lost...

December 2013

December 19, 2013

Classics of the Season

Santa Claus, as we know, goes everywhere, every year. This year, courtesy of photographer Ed...

December 11, 2013

Prayer: The First Pillar

I'm doing a series on Dominican spirituality over at CatholicMom; the first post is on...

December 09, 2013

Real Pulp Fiction

The most excellent Tom McDonald has found a source for high-quality scans of the pulp...

December 09, 2013

Evangelii Gaudium: God never tires of forgiving us

This question came up at RCIA this week: what's the difference between Peter and Judas?...

December 08, 2013

Dead as a Doornail

Sometimes as I'm reading I'll say to myself, "I like that sentence a whole lot."...

December 02, 2013

Fifteen Views of Christians by Non-Christians

So John Shore at Patheo's Progressive Christian channel asked non-Christians all over the country what...

November 2013

November 26, 2013

Also Righteously Bad

Since I posted about the waiter in Overland Park, Kansas who received a nasty note...

November 25, 2013

Listening to God Redux

I don't know whether Tom McDonald's latest post was inspired by my post on Listening...

November 23, 2013

Flannery O’Connor Not Your Cup Of Tea?

So you've heard people talk about Flannery O'Connor and how deeply Catholic she is, and...

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 14, 2013

Discovering the Saints: Justin Martyr

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

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 11, 2013

Mormons and Full Frontal Snogging — UPDATED

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