Eve Tushnet
here via the New Liturgical Movement website. She’s invoked for the protection of penitents as well as prostitutes. Here’s the Thistle Farms site again btw. Read more
here via the New Liturgical Movement website. She’s invoked for the protection of penitents as well as prostitutes. Here’s the Thistle Farms site again btw. Read more
There is no way I will regret writing this post! Anyway, Helen Rittelmeyer has a provocative piece called “The Language of Addiction Takes Over,” which makes a bunch of great points despite an underlying framework I think may be wrong. Some of the great points: “The religious novel is in eclipse, but the recovery memoir has never been more popular. Recovering addicts show up in high-brow shows like Enlightened, middle-brow shows like The West Wing, and low-brow shows like Prison... Read more
‘Tis the season. I went to my first Easter morning Mass ever this year, and holy cats, was it packed! Yikes. Just wall-to-wall Catholics in all phases of forward- and backsliding. It got me thinking about what I learned from being intermittently Jewish as a kid–taken to High Holy Days services a few times, once? twice? to Purim, sometimes to Passover seders. I honestly don’t remember how often we did any of this. But somewhat to my surprise, I think... Read more
This works best as an Easter song at the end of its album, but here you go anyway–I love this. Probably listened to it for the first time sober ever on Holy Thursday. Had to clean 14-month-old spilled drinks off the CD but it spun just fine. (I just tried looking up this album at The Fix because I was sure they’d put it in one of their “best albums about addiction/recovery” lists, but the search engine said, MOUNTAIN GOATS–Do... Read more
I could watch this every day. So beautiful and poignant. Read more
For some reason Whole Foods was selling lots of heavily marked-down Thanksgiving food last week. I grabbed a can of pumpkin for a dollar and proceeded to use it in black bean chili (not the first time I’ve had good results using a sweeter ingredient in my chili) and in delicious curry pumpkin pancakes, made with–those who know me can already chorus it–chickpea flour. What I did: Sliced an onion. Mixed chickpea flour, curry powder, cumin, cayenne, and salt, in... Read more
quotes Walter Moberly [O]ne should not so romanticize the process of moral and spiritual struggle that the Lukan depiction of Jesus as one who maintains apparent serenity and trust amidst suffering is downgraded; as though an anguished and in some ways vacillating struggle for faith is intrinsically superior to a steadily trusting faith; or as though a steadily trusting faith did not involve its own kind of moral and spiritual struggle. and expands on his words. Read more
“Why I Am a Catholic,” by Calah Alexander. ETA: and more, in praise of Protestants. Read more
It is a good thing to remember that in the cosmic drama, we live out our days on Saturday, the in-between day with no name. I know a woman whose grandmother lies buried under 150-year-old live oak trees in the cemetery of an Episcopal church in rural Louisiana. In accordance with the grandmother’s instructions, only one word is carved on the tombstone: ‘Waiting.’ –Philip Yancey, via Read more
Happy (belated) birthday, Christopher Bowman. Once again I missed posting this on his actual birthday, March 30, but… well, nobody’s perfect. Last year I gave you some of my favorite videos of his skating. I also wrote a bit about why I love him so much here. This year you get one of my favorite versions of his “Hollywood nightclub act” short program, all kitschy pasteboard sexuality. Musical, full of personality, without the frantic neediness this program sometimes had. His... Read more
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