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July 2015

July 08, 2015

The Literature of Contempt: Some Rambling About DFW and Dostoyevsky

Over the holiday weekend I read through pretty much the entire Mockingbird archive of posts...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

“Doing Whatever It Takes to Create a Prison Garden”: Michele Scott

at the Marshall Project: I am a gardener in prison, if such a thing is...

June 22, 2015

“A Most Misunderstood Saint”: Fr James Martin, SJ on St Aloysius Gonzaga

book excerpt: June 21 is the Feast Day of one of the most misunderstood saints...

May 2015

May 21, 2015

“Tom Stoppard Plays With God”: I’m in AmCon

reviewing a new play: “The Hard Problem” is Tom Stoppard’s first work for the stage...

May 12, 2015

Penitence in Easter: Great Post by an Anglican Bishop

...The New Testament suggests that there is nothing more paschal in character, nothing more closely...

May 07, 2015

“Who Dares to Say That Love Is Like the War?”: A Gay, Catholic Poet in the 20th Century

I don't want to be tokenistic but I'm betting the best way to get you...

May 06, 2015

Mother, Church: A Gay Catholic Life

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

May 05, 2015

“Common Hells, Private Heavens”: I’m in Commonweal

reviewing a show at the National Museum of African Art: I’m sitting in hell with...

May 04, 2015

From Edward P. Jones, “Common Law”

"You know, I don't know what's become of you," Idabelle said. "I could say the...

April 2015

April 02, 2015

Gregorio Allegri, “Miserere”

The choir at St Matthew's sang this at Tenebrae last night. Amazing. And with that,...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

“Vampire Brats”: I watch “What We Do in the Shadows”

at the Federalist: Before you accept the immortal kiss of the vampire, ask yourself one...

March 17, 2015

Prurient Solidarity

(I am all about the sexy post titles today.) There's this thing I do, where...

March 17, 2015

Forgiveness and Social Justice

Does Christ's command to love our enemies and bless those who curse us place especially...

March 02, 2015

“Haunted Hollywood”: I watch “Maps to the Stars”

for AmSpec: Part of the reason David Cronenberg’s new Maps to the Stars is so...

February 2015

February 13, 2015

David Carr, RIP

I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling...

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 13, 2015

From Sigrid Undset, “Marta Oulie”

Now I take a more lenient view of many things, but that's because I too...

December 2014

December 19, 2014

Woop Woop, That’s the Sound of… These Links About Policing

and related issues. They're not all completely depressing! "Fallout Grows Over Calif. Chief's Participation in...

December 12, 2014

A Couple Best-Of Lists from Wesley Hill and Helen Andrews

Hill: ...I write often about the consolations of friendship, hospitality, and Christian community, but sometimes...

December 12, 2014

Tenderness, Penitence and Estrangement: I Review the El Greco Show at the National Gallery of Art

for the Weekly Standard: The nickname “El Greco” reveals two things about Doménikos Theotokópoulos, the...

December 05, 2014

Jason Byassee on Christians and “Christian”

This is the part that really irks me the most on eschewing “Christian.” It’s as...

November 2014

November 17, 2014

“In Defense of Flagellation”: Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

is right: ...During the podcast, the guests made several in-passing negative references to the monastic...

November 15, 2014

Vocation as the Next Right Thing: “Gay and Catholic” Tiny Book Extra

Okay, as I wrap up this series of "dvd extras" for my book, let me...

November 08, 2014

The Killing Joke: I read “Infinite Jest”

Finished it and flipped back to the very first page. Hugely tempted to just go...

October 2014

October 22, 2014

“Confessions of a Former Bad Catholic”: A Queer Calling

w/a lot of substance: ...As I thought about this last night, I was taken back...

October 13, 2014

Discipleship Is a Journey: “Gay and Catholic” Book Extra

Hello! I'm cheating here and basically just writing up my notes from the talk I...

October 04, 2014

From “Infinite Jest”

Exec. Director [of Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House (sic)] Pat M. is due...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

No Werewolf But the Class Werewolf: Short movie reviews

The Anniversary: Bette Davis as hell-matriarch in red eyepatch shaped like a teardrop. Swings wildly...

August 08, 2014

Time Is Like a Dream/And Now–For a Time–You Are Mine: A Few More Thoughts on “Boyhood”

So when I wrote my review of Boyhood I knew it had gotten good press,...

July 2014

July 12, 2014

The Era of Personal Redemption: Sens Booker and Paul Take Very Small Step Forward on Criminal Justice Reform

this is simultaneously heartening, and depressing--every increment paid for with so much suffering.