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November 2013

November 20, 2013

Peeta Already Kicks Ass, No Blood Needed

In the run up to the release of Catching Fire, the second Hunger Games movie,...

November 19, 2013

Disenchanting the Villain

First Things has a review up that I liked very much of a Macbeth that the...

November 14, 2013

All Parenthood in a Day

In his memoir Living by Faith, Dwelling in Doubt, Kyle Cupp tells two interwoven stories:...

November 11, 2013

Mormons, Genre Fiction, and (No) Full Frontal Snogging

In Mark Oppenheimer’s most recent column in the New York Times, he speaks to a...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

The Ones Who Walk Away from Dresediel Lex

Max Gladstone's Two Serpents Rise, is his second book in the Craft sequence and falls chronologically...

October 28, 2013

Q&A with Max Gladstone (Part 2)

This is the second part of my interview with Max Gladstone, the author of Three Parts...

October 27, 2013

Q&A with Max Gladstone (Part 1)

On October 29th, Max Gladstone will release his second novel, Two Serpents Rise. His first novel...

October 10, 2013

Christianity in Three Books

Rod Dreher has asked his readers, and the internet at large, what three books they...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

What ornate vestments you have, Father! All the better to…

Because my computer has shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the...

September 22, 2013

Recommendations for the Lives of the Saints

I've just finished reading Sigrid Undset's life of Catherine of Siena, and I'm a little...

September 17, 2013

The Strain of Pride

I've read most of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, but I'd never gotten around to his Tiffany...

August 2013

August 25, 2013

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Atonement?

Eve Tushnet visited “Atonement: Stories About Confession, Redemption and Making Amends” (a night of true stories...

July 2013

July 14, 2013

Intuition Pumps and Other (sometimes extraneous) Tools for Thinking

Daniel Dennett has written three or four quite good books in 2013. It so happens...

June 2013

June 04, 2013

Modern Stoicism – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

A number of my friends have gotten more interested in Stoicism of late and have...

June 01, 2013

Strange Idols and Strange Identities

In Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life, Elizabeth Scalia has a simple definition...

May 2013

May 26, 2013

Anyone have an ideological immersion course?

Yesterday, Chris Hallquist put up a post in the Atheism channel titled "Everyone in America...

January 2013

January 23, 2013

Questing for God in Land of Faerie

Fare Forward, a new Christian magazine has just released its third issue. Some articles are...

January 22, 2013

Pulling Off the New Vulgarity

I am cautiously optimistic for Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby, though, like pretty much...

January 13, 2013

An Outward-Oriented Marriage

I received a free review copy of The Sacred Search by Gary Thomas as part of the Patheos Book...

January 09, 2013

But Aren’t Saints Dreadfully Dull?

Tonight I'm seeing Les Miserables for the third time (there have been various outings as people...

January 03, 2013

Let’s have a Math-Theology Bookclub!

Guys, my life is really really wonderful right now. I just found out about the existence of...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Mormon Enthusiasm for the Self-Made Man

I received a free review copy of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life as...

December 30, 2012

How do you finish being angry?

This review of Lawrence Cunningham's The Seven Deadly Sins: A Visitor's Guide is part of the...

December 29, 2012

The Inspector Javert Medley [Sequence Index]

I may not have drawn little hearts in my middle school notebooks labelled "Leah +...

December 27, 2012

Give Me (and Javert) a Firm Place to Stand

While googling to nail down some of Javert's lyrics, I ended up on his IMDB...

December 26, 2012

Javert: No Quarter Asked or Given

I first saw Les Miserables when I was in middle school, I think, and I was...

December 23, 2012

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Birth of Christ (but were afraid to tweet @Pontifex)

I received a comped copy of this book for review, but have not taken any other compensation nor...

December 14, 2012

7 Hobbit Takes

--- 1 --- I've been nervous about seeing The Hobbit since I saw this passage in...

December 09, 2012

This Prayer Book is a Stub…

This month, the Patheos Book Club is reading Catholic Spiritual Practices: A Treasury of Old and...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

7 Quick Book Recommendations

Tis the season for finding gifts, and how could you possibly do better than books?...