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May 2018

May 29, 2018

Chesterton, Dragons, and Cancer: A Reflection on this Chesterton’s 144th Birthday

Ordinary Time 29 May 2018 The Edge of Elfland Manchester, New Hampshire Dearest Readers, Four...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

Ethnicity, DNA, White Supremacy, and the Pro-Life Movement

David Russell Mosley Eastertide 10 April 2018 The Edge of Elfland Manchester, New Hampshire Dearest...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

Saint-Haunted: How St. Cuthbert Found Me

David Russell Mosley Holy Week Holy Monday 2018 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

January 2018

January 02, 2018

Speaking on the Catholic Imagination for Spirited Theology

David Russell Mosley Christmastide 2 January 2018 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dearest...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

On Culture Wars and Culture Warriors: Wondering Which Way is Up

David Russell Mosley Advent 14 December 2017 The Edge of Elfland Manchester, New Hampshire Dearest...

October 2017

October 27, 2017

The Most Important Document of the Modern Age? Humanae Vitae and Rerum Novarum

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 27 October 2017 The Edge of Elfland Manchester, New Hampshire Dearest Readers,...

July 2017

July 11, 2017

The Dragon Is Dead, Still: A Postlude (of sorts) to My Son’s Battle with Cancer

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 11 July 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

July 06, 2017

Deep in the Forest, There Dragons Will Be: Reflections on a Boat Trip Around Lake Winnipesaukee

Creation is not just what we see with our senses as secular modernity has taught...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

Trying to Say “God”: After the Conference Part II: ““Rendering the World Strange: Folk Piety and Imagination” with Jessica Mesman Griffith, Kevin M. Johnson, and David Russell Mosley

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 27 June 2017 The Edge of Elfland Manchester, New Hampshire...

June 26, 2017

Trying to Say “God”: After the Conference Part I: Reflections

I'm not sure I've ever stayed up later, laughed more, or generally been happier at...

June 21, 2017

Sick Pilgrim and Trying to Say “God”: Before the Conference

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 21 June 2017 The Edge of Elfland Manchester, New Hampshire...

June 14, 2017

Everyone Is a Convert: Further Reflections on Becoming Catholic

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 14 June 2017 The Edge of Elfland Manchester, New Hampshire...

June 08, 2017

I Am Not a Convert: Reflections on Becoming Catholic

Becoming Catholic certainly hasn't made me perfect. But I finally feel at peace, at home....

May 2017

May 28, 2017

Why Remain Catholic? Jean-Luc Marions Says because It’s Fun: The Commonness of the Real

David Russell Mosley Eastertide 28 May 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

May 23, 2017

Every Savage Can Dance: Catholic Reflections on High and Low Culture

David Russell Mosley Eastertide 23 May 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

May 22, 2017

Avocado Toast? Or A Millennial Snowflake’s Snowflakish Reflections on Being Millennial and Catholic Social Teaching

David Russell Mosley Eastertide 22 May 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

May 17, 2017

My Irish Peregrination into the Catholic Church

Towards the end of college and into grad school I became enamoured, infatuated really, with...

May 09, 2017

David Russell Mosley Interviewed on Forging Ploughshares with Dr. Paul Axton

David Russell Mosley Eastertide 9 May 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Reviewing the Benedict Option Part IV: The Benedict Option vs. Distributism

David Russell Mosley Eastertide 26 April 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

April 25, 2017

Reviewing the Benedict Option Part III: The Benedict Option Vs. the Patrick and the Dominic Options

David Russell Mosley Eastertide 25 April 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

April 24, 2017

The Sound of Silence: Reflections on My Struggles with Silence, and its Lack, both in Church and out

David Russell Mosley Eastertide 24 April 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

April 17, 2017

Having Finished One Journey I Find there Is Still More Walking to Do: Reflections on Being Received into the Catholic Church

David Russell Mosley Eastertide Easter Monday 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

April 15, 2017

Good Friday and the Holy Grail: Thirsty Reflections from a Good Friday Service

David Russell Mosley Holy Week Holy Saturday 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

April 05, 2017

Reviewing Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option Part II: The Benedict Option Vs. the Radical Catholic Reimagination of Everything AKA the Sophia Option

David Russell Mosley Lent 5 April 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

April 04, 2017

Being Deified: Poetry and Fantasy on the Path to God ebook Available for 9.99

David Russell Mosley Lent 4 April 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

April 02, 2017

Goblins at the Feet of Mary: Reflections on What I Saw During Mass Today

David Russell Mosley Lent 3 April 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

April 01, 2017

Is Patheos Catholic Liberal?

David Russell Mosley Lent 1 April 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

Joy in the Midst of Unruly Children: Reflections on Prayer and Parenting

David Russell Mosley Lent 27 March 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

March 18, 2017

The World of Patrick’s Breastplate: Seeing through the Eyes of a Medieval Prayer

David Russell Mosley Lent 18 March 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

March 15, 2017

Michael Martin Discusses the Sophia Option

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 15 March 2017 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

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