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September 2019

September 19, 2019

“Authenticity Is the New Authority”

So here I am at the Catholic Imagination Conference, hosted by Loyola University in Chicago,...

September 14, 2019

Just Because You’re Paranoid: I watch “Doubt” at Studio Theatre

One of the central points of Gavin de Becker's terrific book The Gift of Fear...

August 2019

August 31, 2019

Gods of the Lost: Three short book notes

It can be hard to tell gifts of the spirit From clever counterfeits... --Mountain Goats...

August 25, 2019

We Don’t Need No Water…

A couple thoughts on the Pauline counsel, "It is better to marry than to burn...

August 17, 2019

“I Want Everyone to Get High!”… And Other Contemporary Christian Anthems

Relatively short reviews of three new(ish) albums by indie musicians who are various stripes of...

July 2019

July 24, 2019

My Summer of Ice Cube Continues: Two Views of Black Chicago’s Past

I recently revisited the immensely pleasurable 2002 comedy Barbershop, set in pretty much the year...

July 17, 2019

From the Harlem Renaissance to the Overlook Hotel: Short book notes

Dorothy West, The Living Is Easy: The reductive way to describe this soapy tale of...

July 15, 2019

Do We Really Need A New Translation of the “Confessions”? Surprisingly, Yes!

I review Thomas Williams's flamboyantly helpful new edition, for the University Bookman: Thomas Williams spends...

June 2019

June 27, 2019

Eight “Catholic Horror Films” from a Global Church

I'm at America magazine, venturing beyond America: Everybody knows the Catholic Church dominates the world...

June 13, 2019

Silence as Humility vs. Silence = Death

In Catholic spirituality silence is associated with humility and reverence. Silence is the abyss in...

June 13, 2019

Ecstasy in Celibacy Postscript: A Prayer from Gertrude the Great

I'm reading Caroline Walker Bynum's excellent Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the...

June 11, 2019

Ecstasy in Celibacy: Workshop Part Three

part one; part two. Celibacy is beautiful because celibacy is a witness to our trust...

June 11, 2019

Ecstasy in Celibacy: Workshop Part Two

part one. Celibacy frees (or pushes!) us to form and strengthen kinds of relationship which...

June 11, 2019

Ecstasy in Celibacy: The Workshop

These are my notes from the workshop I gave at Revoice on "ecstasy in celibacy."...

June 10, 2019

Ecstasy in Celibacy, part one: The Handout

Hey y'all. I had a terrific time at Revoice 2k19, where I presented a workshop...

June 02, 2019

Raissa Maritain : Souffrance :: me : Sleaziness

Yesterday I finished Brenna Moore's Sacred Dread: Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the...

May 2019

May 14, 2019

Notes from a “Pilgrimage to Hostage Relics”

This past Saturday a small band of weirdos met in a park to practice our...

May 12, 2019

“A Gimlet Eye Beneath a Chapel Veil”: My tribute to Antonia White

at the University Bookman: "We work to-day to turn out, not accomplished young women, nor...

May 06, 2019

Two Charcoal Fires, Two Words for Love: Ron Belgau on Peter and Jesus by the Sea of Tiberias

this is great stuff: After breakfast, Peter and Jesus had a conversation which raises an...

April 2019

April 24, 2019

Being Shut Out of the Perfect Closed Sphere of Faith: I’m at The Catholic Woman

being a Catholic woman: Hey-- Back in 1998 or 1999, when I was a very...

April 23, 2019

Were You There When the Stone Was Rolled Away? Triduum Notes from a Gone-Away City

Some personal news: Christ is risen! Holy Thursday: I avoided the Triduum services at my...

April 04, 2019

Virgins and Devils: I review “The Devil’s Doorway”

for America: “The Devil’s Doorway” is a found-footage film set in 1960 in a Magdalene...

April 02, 2019

The Summoning Bell: My Top Five Novels of Institutional Life

I love "institutional novels": novels whose characters whose lives are shaped, often against their will,...

March 2019

March 26, 2019

Medieval Eucharistic Piety, And My Own: They Recognized Him in the Breaking of the Bread

Alongside the Crucifixion, the Eucharist--and specifically the Real Presence, the literal transformation of the bread...

March 12, 2019

I Review a Collection of Pre-WWI Socialist Fairy Tales

at First Things: When I was a girl, I had a picture book, The Day the...

March 09, 2019

A Theological Reflection on Having Mono

BD McClay writes a terrific, gripping piece: In a collection of papers published in 1966,...

February 2019

February 22, 2019

“The Value of Public Penance in the Age of Clerical Abuse, Mass Incarceration, And #MeToo”: I’m in America

the magazine, though also the country: Bishop Knestout is not the only U.S. prelate to...

February 15, 2019

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Some notes on Mary of Egypt

If you are up-front about your experience of either addiction, or let's say marginalized sexuality,...

February 14, 2019

“The Conjuring” Is a Perfect Valentine’s Day Movie…

...mostly for bad reasons. Spoilers below. The Conjuring, from Saw perpetrator James Wan, tells the...

February 10, 2019

Down the Wrong Road, Both Ways

Toward the end of 2017, I think, I started doing something which I eventually called...