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November 2013

November 21, 2013
As a house, Barton Cottage, though small, was comfortable and compact; but as a cottage...
November 20, 2013
Magisterium is an orchestra of sorts, with full choir, playing original compositions as well as...
November 19, 2013
A boy, son of the chief of a clan living in a mound on an...
November 18, 2013
So you're a big city, and people wind up dead, and they have no loved...
November 18, 2013
Last month I spent many pixels criticizing a particularly bad and ineffective way of explaining...
November 17, 2013
A couple of weeks ago I compared the interior life to a kitchen remodel. You've...
November 16, 2013
I wrote this review of Stephen King's Everything's Eventual in March of 2013. Reading this...
November 15, 2013
Dominican philosopher Scholasticism was his game Summa Theologica Aquinas was his name. Well, OK, I...
November 14, 2013
My latest column for CatholicMom concerns one of the Church's first apologists, St. Justin Martyr,...
November 14, 2013
In 1948, Josef Pieper published a selection of short texts from the writings of St....
November 14, 2013
Music, landscape gardening, architecture—there was no start to his talents. — Terry Pratchett, Hogfather, speaking...
November 13, 2013
The Conventional Friars are a Catholic novelty band started by six sophomores from the Franciscan...
November 12, 2013
Rebecca Frech has a beautiful story to tell, and tells it beautifully: what a truly...
November 12, 2013
So a week or so ago I complained about a fellow who left an awful...
November 12, 2013
In Three Parts Dead, Max Gladstone paints a picture of a fascinating world where gods...
November 11, 2013
Now, with the relevant link. Leah Libresco discusses an article that asks, why is it...
November 11, 2013
Last July there was an article in the Atlantic that stated that Monogamy kills Eros,...
November 10, 2013
I've had an iPad 2 since they were first released, and I love it. It's...
November 10, 2013
When you embark on the interior life, you'll find that feelings come with it. Sometimes...
November 09, 2013
I've added a new page to the menu at the top of the page: the...
November 09, 2013
This piece was first posted in February of 2003. I've been working myself pretty hard...
November 08, 2013
In old times in England, "Tom O'Bedlam" was a name given to mad beggars (or...
November 07, 2013
Katrina Fernandez, aka The Crescat, has knocked it out of the park with a post...
November 07, 2013
Receiving God's love is kind of like tuning in on a radio signal. God's love...
November 07, 2013
“Dang Brodell,” Emmett said. Actually that isn’t what he said. But about a year ago...
November 06, 2013
I am not an apparitions kind of guy. I'm aware of Fatima and Guadalupe and...
November 06, 2013
Bad behavior on my enemy's part does not justify bad behavior on my part. Bad...
November 06, 2013
In response to this post, the geographically named Joe Washingtoncatholic pointed me at a genuinely...
November 06, 2013
New York cover band Deacon Greg and the Dalmatics is a regular sight on the...
November 05, 2013
The common view of faith is well represented by this speech from Jack McDevitt's novel...
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