Keeping Up with the Elf-Friends: Sick Pilgrim and Breadbox Media

Keeping Up with the Elf-Friends: Sick Pilgrim and Breadbox Media January 18, 2017

David Russell Mosley

Photo by David Russell Mosley
Photo by David Russell Mosley

Ordinary Time
18 January 2017
The Edge of Elfland

Hudson, New Hampshire

Dear Readers,

Despite being a solo writer, which can be rather lonely, I have since moving to Patheos begun relationships with some of my fellow writers. A couple of them have some exciting news and I wanted to let you know about it.

If you haven’t checked out the Sick Pilgrim blog here at Patheos Catholic, I strongly recommend it. Jessica Mesman Griffith and Jonathan Ryan are its curators and the pieces they write and collect from other collaborators are wonderful. Some are raw, emotional pieces about religion and mental health. Others are about faith and fiction. Others still bring together the strange elements of the Christian (and particularly Catholic) faith to remind us that Christianity is not synonymous with secular American culture and desires. Well, not only do Jess and Jonathan curate a wonderful blog, they have co-written a book which I can officially announce has been titled, Strange Journey: How Two Homesick Pilgrims Stumbled Back Into the Catholic Church. I look forward to this book very much and you should too.

Jess and Jonathan have also recently begun a podcast called Wonder with Sick Pilgrim. Only their inaugural episode is out, but it is worth listening to. Jonathan recounts an ill-fated trip to the Grand Canyon while Jess provides intermittent stories of death and woe surrounding that beautiful place.

The podcast can be downloaded from iTunes, but it can also be found on the Breadbox Media App. I can certainly recommend the Breadbox Media App as containing shows like Jess and Jonathan’s that are worth listening to. Many of them are live and later recorded. One such show is Timothy Putnam‘s Outside the Walls, on which yours truly was interviewed concerning myth and story during Advent (give it a listen to hear me tell stories about my childhood belief in Santa Claus, and to hear Timothy continuously compare me to fat men I respect such as Thomas Aquinas and G.K. Chesterton). 

That’s all I’ve got for you today. Keep an eye out for some future letters on Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia which I am re-reading for a Signum University class on Lewis and Tolkien. Until then I remain,

Sincerely yours,
David


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