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November 2020

November 14, 2020

The Real Significance of Writing King Lear in Quarantine

We need Lear; we need to be able to rant and rave on a blasted...

December 2019

December 30, 2019

A Year-End Retrospective: Looking Back on Failure

It is our work, heavy work, tiring work, work where we often miss our turning...

October 2019

October 27, 2019

Church As Empire? This Is Not the Catholicism I Signed Up For

But what I am seeing right now is a movement in Catholicism to make it...

May 2019

May 26, 2019

“The Things I Do For Love” – Game of Thrones, The Classics, and the Human Condition

This might seem cynical to people brought up on feel-good romances, the inheritors of our...

May 04, 2019

The Night Is Dark And Full Of Incoherence: What Is Going On With Game Of Thrones?

SPOILERS OF COURSE I’ve been a fan of George R.R. Martin’s monumental epic, A Song...

January 2019

January 14, 2019

Maybe It’s Not the Book That’s the Problem. Maybe It’s You

When a person admits to being sexually aroused by that which is not intended to...

November 2018

November 16, 2018

“Traditional Catholicism” and Fetishization of Women

They are not presented as subjects, as women with interiority and a story. They are...

November 04, 2018

Cruelty, Sentimentality, and Authoritarian Regimes

It makes me aware of how totalitarian regimes succeed. Not because people are evil, but...

October 2018

October 10, 2018

What Does Wonder Know? The 2018 Festival of Friendship

This was my third year of being involved in Revolution of Tenderness’s cultural event, the...

July 2018

July 23, 2018

Of Blackberries, Summer, and the Frailty of Time

Time is, we know from philosophy, theology, and physics, something of an illusion. This is...

July 20, 2018

Review of The Wineskins: Shut Me Up Sundance. Songs for Now and Then

And so in the quiet melody and the hint of bittersweet, in the questioning of...

July 04, 2018

I Won’t Be Trying To Say God Next Year: #MeToo and Catholic Writers – UPDATED

it’s clear that women writers have an uphill battle still, when it comes to being...

June 2018

June 12, 2018

White Folks Need to Watch Black Panther

We love racial justice stories when we get to swoop in and save everyone, but...

June 11, 2018

The Western Canon, Incels, and a Problem with Pedagogy

How many professors at the kind of schools that emphasize the canon are willing to...

June 07, 2018

Flowers For Virginia: A Visit to Monk’s House

We’d spent the day in places haunted by ghosts, ghosts who comfort us, with their...

May 2018

May 17, 2018

“I’ll Eat You Up, I Love You So”: Religion Where The Wild Things Are

There’s a long tradition of Catholics being accused of cannibalism, eating our own God, and...

May 14, 2018

Where Are the Poor in the Spectacle of the Church?

If there was any scandal in the Met Gala, it is that when the world...

May 01, 2018

Merton’s Mona Lisa Smile

My friend Cassidy Hall is one of those wonderful humans who still write letters,...

March 2018

March 24, 2018

Stories About Women Perpetuate the Myth of Incompleteless

There is no reason why we shouldn’t have stories about women doing exciting things with...

March 19, 2018

So You Have a Problem With Diversity….

Do you see the presupposition behind this? It’s that non-diversity is natural, organic, and better.

March 12, 2018

A Dispute Over “Color Blind” Casting Leads to Racist Attacks on Teens

What bothers me most in both this case, and the case of the Parkland students,...

February 2018

February 07, 2018

How Safe Can Our Art Be?

There's sacrifice demanded by art, but this doesn't mean you sacrifice the lives of others...

January 2018

January 29, 2018

They Expected the Women to Remain Silent…

The woman who speaks out can expect to be silenced and ridiculed

January 08, 2018

Dr. Estrangedlove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace My Inner Feminist

Why am I the only woman in the room? Because a male friend of mine...

January 03, 2018

Our Lady of Righteous Anger

until women are the ones leading the conversation about sex, gender, and equality in the...

September 2017

September 16, 2017

Join us in the Revolution of Tenderness

I believe literature is by its very nature interdisciplinary, and creates a space in which...

July 2017

July 21, 2017

Women’s Literature: The Stories That Are Not Told

The radical idea that women are people too still hasn’t entirely caught on.

July 20, 2017

A Defense of Game of Thrones

Admitting that I am a fan of the hugest TV hit series of the moment...

July 06, 2017

When I Try to Say “God,” Strange Sounds Come Out

I had tried to make them overtly religious, failing to recognize that every one of...

May 2017

May 19, 2017

What is Happening to Our Universities?

Will Catholic universities step forward and reclaim this tradition which is uniquely our own?