Race in the Catholic Imagination
Cary Dabney on understanding demographic trends.
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The Last Battle: The End of Narnia's Beginning
Anthony Pagliarini on C.S. Lewis.
Reading Children's Literature After the Tragedy of School Shootings
LuElla D'Amico on fairy tales and faith formation.
A Map of Dante's Purgatorio in Three Touchstones
James Matthew Wilson on Purgatory.
A Map of Dante's Inferno in Three Touchstones
James Matthew Wilson on hell.
Dante and the Desire to Go Beyond the Human
Stephen Gregg, OCist on hell and other people.
The Uneven Race Between Work and Marriage
Joshua Hren on competing callings.
Searching for a Secular Age
James Matthew Wilson on Myles Connolly's postsecular modernism.
Finding Christ Among the Karamazovs
Paul Contino on Dostoevsky's incarnational realism.
What Happens to the Heart in Advent
Jonathan Geltner on Jon Fosse's mystical realism.
T.S. Eliot's Marian Transformation of the Bhagavad Gita
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
Robert Imbelli on Solomon, the circle of theologians, and the celebration of the risen body in Dante.
The Mark of a Sacramentalist
Scott Beauchamp on Homer, time, and the Welsh poet David Jones.
The Cross-Examination of Christianity
Rida Vaquas on Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, the working poor, and the Cross.
Ernest Hemingway's Dark Night of the Soul
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell on Hemingway's and O'Connor's paths through Catholicism.
The Moment in Race Relations That Keeps Repeating Itself
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?
Jessica Hooten Wilson on Walker Percy's fiction and the experience of catasrophe.
Reasons for Reading the Decameron Even After Coronavirus Is Over
Stephen Metzger on what Boccacio's classic has to say theologically.
A Catholic Reading of the Spirituality in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
M. Shawn Copeland explores the Nobel Prize winner's affinity for material Catholic devotional life.
The Catholic Artist in a Neo-Pagan Age
James Matthew Wilson shows how to speak to postmoderns like Paul spoke to the Greeks.
The City Is Sick
John Panteleimon Manoussakis on contagion in the literary works of Sophocles and Camus.
Flannery O'Connor Versus the Marvel Universe
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
On February 6th Eugene McCarraher will deliver a CLJ Lecture about The Enchantments of Mammon (followed by a book discussion).
A Protestant Integralist?
Peter Leithart recalls the life and thought of John Williamson Nevin.
The Houston Astros, Digital Espionage, and the Harsh Demands of Justice
Kevin Clarke breaks down the many sins of the 2017 Houston Astros.
When Nobodies Write Spiritual Memoirs
Kenneth Garcia chews over who has earned the right to write a spiritual memoir.
Nature Mediating Grace
Mike Aquilina goes on pilgrimage with Ken Garcia.
Social Reform Isn't the Goal
Terence Sweeney reckons with Alan Jacobs's The Year of the Lord.
Tracing Ghosts in the Theological Tradition
Andrew Kuiper searches two millennia of theology for ghosts (and finds them).
The Scattered Alumni Who Return to Campus Posthumously
Andrea Antenan Peecher puzzles about the two cemeteries on University of Notre Dame's campus.