Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Deadline Looming for the Sacred Heart Art Competition
A friendly reminder to submit your work to our sacred art competition, and a thorough look into the art of Sacred Heart.
Friday Links
Tara Isabella Burton: On Good Parties, Dan Hitchens on Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists, The Sacred and Profane Love Podcast is back with Patrick Deneen on DeLillo’s White Noise, Anecdotal Evidence on Henri Coulette, Poetica: “Dear March - Come in” by Emily Dickinson
A letter to my baker
On the subtle art of baking and the tortured geniuses who keep us lining up at the bakery counter morning after morning.
Friday Links
The Tin Can Residency, Frank Guan On Don DeLillo, Art as Obedience by Madison Morris, Lenten Realism from Glenn Arber, Adam Fleming Petty on Ben Lerner
And I alone am escaped to tell thee
“Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.’ I agree with the second part.” J.D. Harlock on writing as an act of defiance in the face of grave evil.
Friday Links
with Ian McGilchrist in First Things, Catholics Need Poetry, Luke Coppen & Bishop Varden, Nayeli Riano on T.S. Eliot, Ryan Wilson & Catholic Literary Arts, & Raffaella: A New Fairytale Ballet
Ash Wednesday and the comfort of death
A moving reflection by Kerri Christopher about miscarriage and hope.
Friday Links
Poems Ancient and Modern , Risking Enchantment talks about Poetic Vision: The Catholic Case for Everyday Poetry, Trinitarian Genealogies: Father, Son, and the Spirit of Modernity, The Roots of Knowing: A Dive into Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse's Novellas, Hunger by Narine Abgaryan
A writer’s catechism for the Lord’s Prayer
Angela Townsend offers a fresh perspective on the Lord’s Prayer that you won’t want to miss.
Friday Links
Teaching as a form of kinship
“The people who teach us claim us somehow. We often refer to what we owe them as a debt. But it isn’t a debt. It wasn’t participation in a transaction, not with the sisters. It was participation in a blood line. It wasn’t a transaction; it was a transfusion.”
Friday Links
with Shadowlands Dispatch, Climbing the Mountains of Modernity & Ekstasis and the Chicken Truck, The Honest Broker: Notes Toward a New Romanticism, Katy Carl reviews Why Do the Heathen Rage?, Collegium Institute & DT Global Catholic Literature Seminar on Jon Fosse
How (not) to run an art competition
Daniel Mitsui explains why he won’t participate in the art competition sponsored by St. Peter’s Basilica and recommends that you don’t, either.
Swift Going
Peter Bast explains how attending a Taylor Swift concert is the closest we’ll get to participating in a Viking berserker attack, along with offering a lengthy meditation on crowd dynamics, the nature of the modern music industry, and the road our current civilization path is taking us (we might not want to go).
Friday Links
A road less taken on Maui
In a world of bucket lists and tourists traps, perhaps a tiny church, a churchyard, and solitude are all we need.
Friday Links
with a poem from Steven Searcy, ND conference with JMW, Joshua Hren, J. C. Scharl, Paul Pastor, Paul Krause on Jane Austen, Dwight A. Lindley III on Homer, art from Maura H. Harrison
The Illustrated Word
St. Aethelwold’s Benedictional and the art of illumination
Friday Links
Friday Links with Paul Lauritzen on end-of-life dreams, Trevor Cribben Merrill: Three Lessons in Beauty, Phil Klay on a Wild Butchery of Souls ,Clark Weidner on Dostoevsky, Faith and Imagination podcast with Sally Read
Art teaches us how to see
There’s a whole realm of vision we’ve never noticed before. Do we really know what we see?