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November 2020

November 09, 2020

Do You Die?: Two book notes

Last week my time travel rosary ticked over into 2012, The Year I Quit Drinking....

August 2020

August 12, 2020

How to Be an Extra in Your Own Life: Several short film reviews

or film impressions, or what have you. Saving the best for last. Tragedy Girls: High-school...

June 2020

June 18, 2020

Humility and Resistance in the Visions of an Enslaved Mystic

I get v. personal at The Lamp: In the middle of the seventeenth century in...

April 2020

April 20, 2020

What recovery culture can teach us about the meaning of work: I’m in America

magazine, though also country: “Things began to come together. I got a job scrubbing toilets,...

January 2020

January 27, 2020

“Finding God in ‘The Warden,’ An Iranian Prison Drama and Parable”: I’m at America

reviewin': The Iranian writer and director Nima Javidi’s recent film “The Warden” is a prison...

December 2019

December 13, 2019

I review “Knives Out”

at America, which gave it a much more enthusiastic headline than I really think this...

June 2019

June 04, 2019

What (and Who) Is Punishment For? I’m at The American Conservative

with an essay riffing on the provocative, if incomplete, work of a Trump-appointed federal judge:...

March 2019

March 28, 2019

Stranger with My Face: I watch “Us”

Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning directorial debut, 2017’s “Get Out,” was as much an exploration of the...

December 2018

December 08, 2018

Is the Best Catholic Horror Movie of 2018… “The Song of Bernadette”?

I ask the hard questions, at America: At first glance, “The Song of Bernadette” seems...

September 2018

September 04, 2018

From Apocalypse to Revelation

Some notes about the Catholic Church. # There's a bit in an early voiceover from...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

Her Mistress’s Hand

Hello! I'm back from Revoice, it was amazing!!!, more on that in a bit. I...

February 2018

February 08, 2018

“The Body & Society” Notes Part… 6 I Think: Blessed Are the Sleazoids

A book about the special honor accorded virgins, celibates, and others who renounced sex...

February 28, 2017

“Corruptible Crown”: I review “King Charles III”

at First Things: The most reactionary thing about King Charles III, the modern Shakespeare pastiche...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

He That Increaseth Sorrow Increaseth Knowledge: Or, Notes on Meritocracy

This is a great piece but I guess the reason the end disappointed me is...

December 24, 2016

“Unexpected Beauty in the Union Station Metro”: Prince of Petworth

posts: Tymara Walker posts on youtube (thanks to all for sending links): “This is the...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

Book Announcement: Staying Catholic When You’ve Been Hurt in the Church

Hello all. I'm very happy to announce that an anthology I'm editing, with the working...

September 30, 2016

Tom Holland: The Tyrannosaur vs. the Crucified

excellent metaphor and accurate insight at the heart of this piece from a scholar of...

January 2016

January 04, 2016

“‘Hamilton’ and the Romance of Government”: My take

for AmCon: I’ve finally heard “Hamilton,” the Broadway hip-hop musical about the first Secretary of...

December 2015

December 09, 2015

Beyond “Die Hard”: Some Christmas Flicks for the Cold and Creepy Child Within

A few years back I started noticing how many bleak, cheerless, or just unexpected films...

November 2015

November 18, 2015

Prepare for Life in Post-Christian America: Play “After Virtue”–The Game!

or, my review of Winners and Losers: “Winners and Losers,” created by Marcus Youssef and...

September 2015

September 09, 2015

Take Me to Church–But Not the Ones that Hurt: Starting a Book Project

Hey y'all. This is all in the very, very first stages, but I'm talking with...

July 2015

July 20, 2015

Wesley Hill on Unchosen Sacrifice

and being gay and Christian: ...Julie and I both know that Christian churches and communities...

July 15, 2015

What We See: Some Thoughts on Julie Rodgers’s Resignation from Wheaton

Earlier this week Julie Rodgers posted a characteristically forthright and gentle explanation of her shift...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

From Sarah Ruhl, “100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write”

There were times when it felt as though my children were annihilating me. Finally I...

May 2015

May 05, 2015

“What does it mean to be Catholic?”: Part three of my conversation with Alicia de los Reyes

at Surprising Faith: Alicia: What do you think it means to be Catholic? Your Catholicism...

January 2015

January 13, 2015

O Wanderer, Come Home: Notes from the Gay Christian Network Conference

Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up...

January 06, 2015

Acceptance as the Precondition for Change: Motivational Interviewing and Jesus and Gay Stuff

A second small post in my intermittent series about things people have asked me in...

December 2014

December 22, 2014

Kathy Shaidle’s Poetry, Old and New

So I took part in this year-end books roundup with AmCon, and once again told...

December 19, 2014

“Will Work for Meaning”: I review “Two Days, One Night”

at AmCon: The most tense scene I saw in any movie this year was Marion...

October 2014

October 08, 2014

“Why I Want to Live Long and Burden My Children”: Cheryl Magness

writes: Last week The Atlantic published the article “Why I Hope to Die by 75” by Ezekiel...