Mackerel-Snapping

A few weeks ago I got a chance to see the Mountain Goats in concert....

for AmCon, and end up ranting about the sacred Victim, obviously: Don’t Breathe, the new...

readin': I’ve just finished Charles Williams's 1937 novel Descent into Hell, which was recommended to...

grauniading: With its reputation for sex, drugs and unbridled hedonism, disco doesn’t have a reputation...

What makes Jesus credible--at least for those of us who are Christians? The answers are...

I just read and loved this stiletto book, which I finally picked up after reading...

I really enjoyed Melinda Selmys's list of the twenty books that have shaped her. It's...

Abundance and destitution are two facets of the one face of God, and to be...

Would you like a practical, philosophical, and psychological look at natural family planning from someone...

Someone who knows I volunteer at a crisis pregnancy center sent me a recent article...

A while ago I wrote this ironically-distanced post about how one might defend the all-male...

at First Things: Coppage Did you have prayers that you were relying on? Fr. Bazi...

your joke here! But no, this article from early July is a good basic starting...

And it's St Aelred's abbey, too: A hauntingly beautiful set of photos, appearing on DailyMail, shows...

In chronological order of when I saw them. The cathedrals are toward the end. Vic...

as usual I seem to have kept the most important stuff for the last three...

by Eleanor Parker aka A Clerk of Oxford. The rest of this post is quite...

Steven Greydanus is the movie critic for Crux and the National Catholic Register, and he's...

Last Saturday was the feast of Sts Processus and Martinian, patrons of wardens, guards, and...

doin' my thing: On June 26, while flying back from a trip to Armenia, Pope...

at First Things: Or I think of a story I’ve heard Shane Claiborne recount, in...

I wrote it up for AmCon: The summary for Zach Clark’s new indie flick Little...

Christianity Today: For a Latino, Pentecostal megachurch just 10 minutes south of the Orlando nightclub...

listin': These films show us visions of a world so often lacking in mercy, as...

Posting this here so I can refer to it easily. This is a message from...

at First Things: "Christian pop is unrelentingly cheerful.” That was Leah Libresco's conclusion when she...

more riffing on The Lobster from me: Last week I saw The Lobster, an extremely...

Going into this book I knew basically nothing about the beguines--not even how you pronounce...

(of which more soon) Once, while visiting the Benedictine nuns at St. Catherine's near Sint-Truiden...

A very small thought about this review of several "young evangelical memoirs." So first, there's...