The Allegory of the Dinner Party: Hitchcock’s Rope and Axel’s Babette’s Feast May 24, 2023 | Michael Breidenbach Michael Breidenbach on eating.
Race in the Catholic Imagination September 01, 2022 | Cary Dabney Cary Dabney on understanding demographic trends.
The Last Battle: The End of Narnia's Beginning August 08, 2022 | Anthony Pagliarini Anthony Pagliarini on C.S. Lewis.
Reading Children's Literature After the Tragedy of School Shootings June 27, 2022 | LuElla D’Amico LuElla D'Amico on fairy tales and faith formation.
A Map of Dante's Purgatorio in Three Touchstones May 19, 2022 | James Matthew Wilson James Matthew Wilson on Purgatory.
A Map of Dante's Inferno in Three Touchstones May 05, 2022 | James Matthew Wilson James Matthew Wilson on hell.
Dante and the Desire to Go Beyond the Human September 20, 2021 | Stephen Gregg Stephen Gregg, OCist on hell and other people.
The Uneven Race Between Work and Marriage June 04, 2021 | Joshua Hren Joshua Hren on competing callings.
Searching for a Secular Age March 23, 2021 | James Matthew Wilson James Matthew Wilson on Myles Connolly's postsecular modernism.
Finding Christ Among the Karamazovs February 09, 2021 | Paul Contino Paul Contino on Dostoevsky's incarnational realism.
What Happens to the Heart in Advent December 17, 2020 | Jonathan Geltner Jonathan Geltner on Jon Fosse's mystical realism.
T.S. Eliot's Marian Transformation of the Bhagavad Gita September 25, 2020 | Brendan Case Brendan Case on Krishna, the Virgin Mary, and detachment in T.S. Eliot's long poems.
Three Tantalizing Enigmas in Dante’s Heaven of the Sun September 22, 2020 | Fr. Robert Imbelli Robert Imbelli on Solomon, the circle of theologians, and the celebration of the risen body in Dante.
The Mark of a Sacramentalist August 04, 2020 | Scott Beauchamp Scott Beauchamp on Homer, time, and the Welsh poet David Jones.
The Cross-Examination of Christianity August 03, 2020 | Rida Vaquas Rida Vaquas on Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, the working poor, and the Cross.
Ernest Hemingway's Dark Night of the Soul July 31, 2020 | Angela Alaimo O’Donnell Angela Alaimo O'Donnell on Hemingway's and O'Connor's paths through Catholicism.
The Moment in Race Relations That Keeps Repeating Itself May 12, 2020 | Angela Alaimo O’Donnell Angela Alaimo O'Donnell on Ahmaud Arbery and Flannery O'Connor's ambivalence about race.
A Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World Asks: Has It Happened at Last? March 31, 2020 | Jessica Hooten Wilson Jessica Hooten Wilson on Walker Percy's fiction and the experience of catasrophe.
Reasons for Reading the Decameron Even After Coronavirus Is Over March 30, 2020 | Stephen M. Metzger Stephen Metzger on what Boccacio's classic has to say theologically.
A Catholic Reading of the Spirituality in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon March 17, 2020 | M. Shawn Copeland M. Shawn Copeland explores the Nobel Prize winner's affinity for material Catholic devotional life.
The Catholic Artist in a Neo-Pagan Age March 16, 2020 | James Matthew Wilson James Matthew Wilson shows how to speak to postmoderns like Paul spoke to the Greeks.
The City Is Sick March 13, 2020 | John Panteleimon Manoussakis John Panteleimon Manoussakis on contagion in the literary works of Sophocles and Camus.
Flannery O'Connor Versus the Marvel Universe March 06, 2020 | Jessica Hooten Wilson Jessica Hooten Wilson presents an alternative universe of un-American virtues.
TODAY: You're a Slave to Money, Then You Die: A CLJ Lecture by Eugene McCarraher January 28, 2020 | Artur Sebastian Rosman On February 6th Eugene McCarraher will deliver a CLJ Lecture about The Enchantments of Mammon (followed by a book discussion).
A Protestant Integralist? January 23, 2020 | Peter Leithart Peter Leithart recalls the life and thought of John Williamson Nevin.
The Houston Astros, Digital Espionage, and the Harsh Demands of Justice December 09, 2019 | Kevin Clarke Kevin Clarke breaks down the many sins of the 2017 Houston Astros.
When Nobodies Write Spiritual Memoirs November 22, 2019 | Kenneth Garcia Kenneth Garcia chews over who has earned the right to write a spiritual memoir.
Nature Mediating Grace November 20, 2019 | Mike Aquilina Mike Aquilina goes on pilgrimage with Ken Garcia.
Social Reform Isn't the Goal November 04, 2019 | Terence Sweeney Terence Sweeney reckons with Alan Jacobs's The Year of the Lord.
Tracing Ghosts in the Theological Tradition November 01, 2019 | Andrew Kuiper Andrew Kuiper searches two millennia of theology for ghosts (and finds them).