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September 2017

September 20, 2017

From Sophocles to Twin Peaks: What Killed Laura Palmer?

This post originally appeared at Good Letters on June 1, 2012. One of the toughest...

November 2015

November 12, 2015

Sleeping in Slave Quarters at Sweet Briar College

From my office window I can see the pale yellow plantation house, its sharply pitched...

October 2015

October 09, 2015

Our Lady’s Football Team

Every Saturday morning in fall I wake up and feel a tinge of disappointment that...

January 2014

January 07, 2014

The Problem With Waiting, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Gioia seems to be suggesting two conditions necessary for a resurgence...

January 06, 2014

The Problem with Waiting, Part 1

I don’t have much time. I’m sitting in a coffee shop less than a mile...

November 2013

November 15, 2013

Francis and the Via Negativa Part 2

Continued from yesterday. In retrospect, my reaction to Pope Francis’s election makes so much more...

November 14, 2013

Francis and the Via Negativa Part 1

As the smoke—black at first, but slowly giving way to white—escaped into the sky above...

October 2013

October 02, 2013

A Good War Is Hard To Find

A few nights ago, after Jess and the kids were in bed, I finally bit...

May 2013

May 24, 2013

David Foster Wallace Kills My Darlings

“You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” –C.S....

April 2013

April 05, 2013

The Moveable Feast of Memory

There are moments when you take stock of everyone and everything around you because you...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

Becoming Uncool in the Pursuit of Truth

This morning, prepping for a class I’m teaching called Writing about Film and Music, I...

January 2013

January 21, 2013

Writing in the Age of Unbelief

Years ago I was at a panel discussion featuring several Catholic authors when someone asked...

December 2012

December 20, 2012

Thomas Merton: Contemplative Outlaw

On December 10, 1968, Thomas Merton stepped out of the shower in his Bangkok hotel...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

In Memoriam: Joshua Casteel

I’m guessing that most of you haven’t heard of Joshua Casteel—but you should have. Casteel...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Sleeping in Slave Quarters at Sweet Briar College

From my office window I can see the pale yellow plantation house, its sharply pitched...

September 2012

September 21, 2012

The Theological Imagination of David Foster Wallace, Part Two

Continued from yesterday. In his now infamous 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College, David Foster...

September 20, 2012

The Theological Imagination of David Foster Wallace, Part One

When David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008 there was much speculation and spilling of...

June 2012

June 25, 2012

Art at the Crossroads, Part 2

Continued from Friday In order to start treating being an artist more like a...

June 22, 2012

Art at the Crossroads, Part One

Have leisure and know that I am God. —Psalm 65:11 For a long time...

June 01, 2012

From Sophocles to Twin Peaks: What Killed Laura Palmer?

One of the toughest and most important jobs I have as an English professor at...