prayers to Ven Matt Talbot

Look, I have to level with you people: This is a fairly good and poignant...

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an incomplete list of people St Maximilian Kolbe is the patron of. Whoa. His feast...

at Substance.com: ...Schwarz goes on to describe how deputy/pharmacist Logan sometimes actually jumps over the...

uses an unnecessarily tendentious headline, but these laws really are a bad idea, as I...

*should be "haven't been convicted of any crimes," sorry; also I fixed the link: “As...

at Substance: We Americans like to think of ourselves as exceptional, the land of the...

from Substance.com: In an unprecedented display of people power against the war on drugs, thousands...

But he was pierced for our sins, crushed for our iniquity. He bore the punishment...

MORE BABIES, until now I don't think I'd realized how much the first three mysteries...

Rachel Getting Married: The story of a woman coming out of rehab just in time...

on music, drinking, and John Darnielle's novel Master of Reality. You can read it now...

not really a book review! I read John Darnielle’s 2011 novel Master of Reality under the...

Last year I wrote this really scattershot, unsatisfying post about "The Beauty of Obedience," rescuing...

on an awful, years-long case: In 2006, 15-year-old Rennie Gibbs became pregnant. She tested positive...

Last night I saw Quiara Alegria Hudes's Pulitzer-winning Water by the Spoonful at Studio Theatre....

at the intriguing new site Substance: For anyone interested in addiction and drug policy, the...

with an actual review of Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City:...

"International Geographic": I discovered that a lot of conditions which are simply a part of...

a listicle, and for some reason I saved the best stuff for the end, so...

One truism of addiction science is that long-term abuse rewires your brain and changes its...

what's the Drug War? Radley Balko has a must-read roundup of the knee-jerk and the...

Craving is “the one condition all addicts agree is their worst enemy,” Lewis said. “This...

now available in full: What do you do when you’re in a Stephen King novel,...

It's an overview of King's work plus a review of his two most recent novels:...

with a look at the Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed. This piece has...

Two points connected solely by my desire to use this title. First, I am not...

As much as I love the idea of a ballet about alcoholism, this article on...

Helen Rittelmeyer is obviously right that we're in a cultural moment where addiction and recovery...

or, stuff I've been reading. The trust gap between working- and middle-class young people (related...