“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 the midst of making what I thought was a couch fort, he made his own art gallery. He turned the biggest cushion on its...
View Article“Ecstatic Dance”: I review “The Fits,” A Stunning Film
review at First Things: Anna Rose Holmer’s extraordinary new film The Fits begins with a young girl whose body obeys her will implicitly. “One,” eleven-year-old Toni (Royal Hightower) counts, as she...
View ArticleAll Theology Is Prison Theology: A Couple of Links
A little while ago I used a Michigan case about videoconference sentencing to explore the theology of the body of the defendant. Here Mississippi attempted–and then retracted–some wrongheaded theology...
View Article“Cocktail Theology”: William Dailey
at First Things: That brings us to the most important spiritual aspect of cocktail culture: hospitality. Those people coming in off the streets, coming into churches and taverns, what do they seek?...
View Article“The Queen of Bliss and of Beauty”: A Candlemas Carol
I’m telling you, ClerkOfOxford is twitter mvp. Follow her! February 2 is Candlemas, the Feast of the Purification, so here’s a medieval Candlemas carol. Revertere, revertere, The queen of bliss and of...
View ArticleMourning and Weeping in this Valley of Brunch
Last week I did a speaking engagement in New York, on the topic, “Christianity Is the Most Materialistic of Religions.” I did not choose this topic (BOOK ME, I WILL ROLL WITH WHATEVER WEIRD-ASS THING)...
View ArticleAbnormal Beauties: Short horror reviews (films and book)
I recently got to live out a childhood dream. My best friend sent me to the South Salem Wolf Conservation Center, where I got up close and personal with Canis lupus (and sort of far-off and WASPily...
View ArticleSome Notes re: Fr. James Martin (And the Relevance of Orthodox Gay Experience)
So first of all, Christians should not treat one another with contempt, and contempt isn’t cleverness or “hard truths” or whatever y’all think you’re doing. Second, so often straight Christians...
View ArticleBy His Stripes We Are Healed: Re-reading St Anselm’s “Cur Deus Homo”
>In my project of revisiting my past in prayer, I’ve reached 1998, the year of my conversion. (And in certain ways a moral low point, which is a weird thing to recognize about the year you became a...
View ArticleCatherine Addington on the Limited Imagination of the Met Gala
and the broadness of actual Catholic tradition: But given this year’s theme, the limited gender expression was striking. The garments on the red carpet and within the exhibit attest to Catholicism’s...
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