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September 2020

September 23, 2020

God Is My Co-Parent: The “Everyday Religion” of Mothers in Poverty

Recently finished Susan Crawford Sullivan's 2011 Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty, a...

November 2019

November 19, 2019

Theology of Motherhood… By Actual Mothers?!

That's what Carrie Frederick Frost hopes to provoke with her slender new book, Maternal Body:...

September 2017

September 25, 2017

“Losing My Child at Easter”: Extraordinary piece by Leah Libresco Sargeant

at First Things: ...One year later, I was married. And I was still arguing about...

March 2017

March 15, 2017

“Piety and Hunger”: Nice intro essay on “Kristin Lavransdatter”

why not start your journey w/Kristin during Lent? Undset was an obsessive researcher, and her...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

Calendar of Blood: “Holidays”

So since I'm me, I took the time during this Octave of Christmas to watch...

August 2016

August 03, 2016

Fr. Mother, Or, Is There an Equivalent to the Priesthood for Ladies?

A while ago I wrote this ironically-distanced post about how one might defend the all-male...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

“Art Matters, Even When You’re Poor”: Alison Stine

in The Nation--this is short and powerful all the way through: ...Not long ago, in...

January 2016

January 14, 2016

“Till Pregnant Women Have Faces”: Melinda Selmys

lays it down: I’ve been having lots of weird, really vibrant dreams (I usually don’t...

November 2015

November 02, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System: Meeting Your Kidnappers, Keeping Mothers Out of Prison, Putting Cops in Schools, And Gullah Amends

Most of these links have a theme of "aftermath," I guess. "What Happened After My...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System

These are fairly random, a grab-bag of the things that caught my attention from the...

October 15, 2015

What Was Going On Inside: I Watch “Goodnight Mommy”

for AmCon: An Austrian television personality comes home to her remote, eerie house to recuperate...

October 02, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System

I have a ton of these lying around so you'll be getting them in small...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

“Always Consider the Person”: Homosexuality at the World Meeting of Families–This Is Less Boring Than It Sounds

(sorry--ANYWAY this is the transcript of the presentation by Ron Belgau and his mom): ...I...

September 24, 2015

“Matters of Life and Death”: Calah Alexander

writes: It doesn’t just seem like our lives will be over because we have “an...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

“Army of Moms” On Patrol After Killing: DNAInfo

reports: ENGLEWOOD — An army of mothers started patrolling Englewood on Monday, gathering on corners...

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 06, 2015

Mother, Church: A Gay Catholic Life

This is an interview I did with my friend Peter. I wanted to talk to...

April 2015

April 08, 2015

Lullabies from Prison and Other Links

Let's start with this. "Bringing Mothers in Prison Closer to Their Children, Through Music": Mothers...

March 2015

March 16, 2015

“To the Mean Stranger Who Judged My Parenting Abilities… Thank You”: KidsPost.Au

powerful: ...It was not too long after, I witnessed a scene in the cereal aisle...

February 2015

February 27, 2015

“In Cana of Galilee”: PEG

old post well worth revisiting: This initiation of the miracle by Mary is not just...

February 11, 2015

“Do Catholics Have Crisis Pregnancies?”: Moving Post

(although the answer will not surprise you!) Let me tell you about a woman I...

February 02, 2015

Me on “Marta Oulie,” Sigrid Undset’s First Published Novel

at the University Bookman: Marta Oulie opens with the confession, “I have been unfaithful to...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Queen of Hearts: I review “Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea”

for Commonweal: The most beautiful portrayal of Marian devotion I’ve seen in literature came unexpectedly...

January 06, 2015

Radley Balko’s Civil Liberties Predictions for 2015

See if you can guess the sci-fi twist. Sometimes, real life can be stranger than...

December 2014

December 12, 2014

“The Mother and the Monster”: I review “The Babadook”

for AmCon. Should've decided in advance how spoilerous I wanted to be; if you haven't...

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...

October 07, 2014

Breastfeeding Is a Hell of a Drug

My best friend just had a baby! And so she sends me this poetic thing,...

September 2014

September 06, 2014

“Mom Arrested for (Maybe) Hanging Up on Cop While Her Missing Daughter Plays at Church”: Reason

gives this story a much different headline from many mainstream media outlets. Let's find out...

August 2014

August 20, 2014

“Another Mom Thrown in Jail for Letting Kids Play in Park”: Reason

I know I say this all the time, but what really gets to me is...

July 2014

July 18, 2014

“The Boy Is the Father of Whatever”: I Review Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood”

at AmCon: About an hour and a half into Richard Linklater’s memorable new film, my...