Show me the way to the next blogwatch bar….

Abhay Khosla on the City of Glass comic; me, less ecstatically but still noting its awesomeness, on ditto. eta: HA, I just read to the end of this post, and it’s distilled Abhay spectacularo. Seriously, he grabs one of the reasons “we still like comics,” and this post as a whole is one of the reasons I’ll always like Abhay’s stuff. Click on the link for the bubblegum wrapper, too.

Dappled Things is going off the air. Awww!! You’ll be missed…. While looking for the City of Glass review, I found this post from him, which is really powerful and something I very much needed right now, about living in imperfect communion:

…The acts of piety and witness of prayerfulness and Christian sacrifice that have impressed me most have not been those of the walking saints (because, in a way, I expect it of them), but rather of the obviously flawed people whose relationship with God and the Church is visibly messed up. When I learn that one of them is in the perpetual adoration chapel everyday, or that they have practiced heroic acts of charity toward a neighbor, or they faithfully say the rosary even though it’s been years since they could go to Communion: this fills me with great hope — for them, for me, and for all sorts of people who might be tempted to think that God and the Church have written them off.

more–you should really read the whole thing

Mark Shea: Heretic saints. (The post is actually about something else.) More on this from me in a bit.

And a call for submissions to a book about how the theology of the body has changed lives. Via Shea.