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I'm telling you, ClerkOfOxford is twitter mvp. Follow her! February 2 is Candlemas, the Feast...

in some of its many forms: Tim Otto found the Church of the Sojourners in...

After I finished Alan Moore's hulking tome Jerusalem (of which more presently) I picked up...

playwatching: Roe, the new play from Lisa Loomer about the woman at the heart of...

Did you know that there's a '60s sunlit dystopia flick about a game show/social control...

The BBC has this great series, "Playing Shakespeare," in which John Barton leads members of...

posts: Tymara Walker posts on youtube (thanks to all for sending links): “This is the...

for the University Bookman. Papist polemics, monks with painted eyelids, "apostolic viragoes" and more! You...

Realized everybody's doing best-of-books in time for Christmas buying. I'll do a complete best-of post...

Hey y'all. The pregnancy center where I volunteer has this excellent newish program of church...

If you're interested in present-day portrayals of Vatican II-era Catholicism, it's pretty fascinating. If you're...

So on Sunday I went to the Kennedy Center for a children's show, "Where Words...

after a whole bunch of gay Christians told me I should: The last thing you...

Hello all. I'm doing a piece for America on what you might call "alternative kinship."...

Or, less terrifyingly, "What's it like when you bring me to speak?" I realized you...

for The American Conservative: Back when I was involved in the late-’90s conservative student movement...

reviewing a movie, and also contemporary American Christian masculinity: Years ago I was reading testimonies...

So, I voted. Remember how I said my ballot would be a fractal of civic...

dispatch: ...On any list of the most consequential Catholic nations today, the Philippines would easily...

Over the weekend I drove to a wedding with a bunch of strangers. We got...

Late last month Aleteia asked me to review "The Loser Letters" at CUA. I ended...

The Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker's searing life of Nat Turner, is a brilliant...

and tell CUA they made a big mistake: “The Loser Letters,” Mary Eberstadt’s tale of...

In one of the three post-concussion Gay Catholic Whatnot interviews I've done so far, my...

Hello all. I'm very happy to announce that an anthology I'm editing, with the working...

excellent metaphor and accurate insight at the heart of this piece from a scholar of...

So a week ago yesterday I fainted and concussed myself. It's all fine, they know...

A little while ago I used a Michigan case about videoconference sentencing to explore the...

doin' my thing! (a much more personal, less Charles Williams-y version of my Charles Williams...

Come and picnic on Saturday, Oct 1, with Always God's Children, the ministry of St...