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I get v. personal at The Lamp: In the middle of the seventeenth century in...

magazine, though also country: “Things began to come together. I got a job scrubbing toilets,...

reviewin': The Iranian writer and director Nima Javidi’s recent film “The Warden” is a prison...

at America, which gave it a much more enthusiastic headline than I really think this...

with an essay riffing on the provocative, if incomplete, work of a Trump-appointed federal judge:...

Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning directorial debut, 2017’s “Get Out,” was as much an exploration of the...

I ask the hard questions, at America: At first glance, “The Song of Bernadette” seems...

Some notes about the Catholic Church. # There's a bit in an early voiceover from...

Hello! I'm back from Revoice, it was amazing!!!, more on that in a bit. I...

  A book about the special honor accorded virgins, celibates, and others who renounced sex...

at First Things: The most reactionary thing about King Charles III, the modern Shakespeare pastiche...

This is a great piece but I guess the reason the end disappointed me is...

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

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...

for AmCon: I’ve finally heard “Hamilton,” the Broadway hip-hop musical about the first Secretary of...

A few years back I started noticing how many bleak, cheerless, or just unexpected films...

or, my review of Winners and Losers: “Winners and Losers,” created by Marcus Youssef and...

Hey y'all. This is all in the very, very first stages, but I'm talking with...

and being gay and Christian: ...Julie and I both know that Christian churches and communities...

Earlier this week Julie Rodgers posted a characteristically forthright and gentle explanation of her shift...

There were times when it felt as though my children were annihilating me. Finally I...

at Surprising Faith: Alicia: What do you think it means to be Catholic? Your Catholicism...

Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up...

A second small post in my intermittent series about things people have asked me in...

So I took part in this year-end books roundup with AmCon, and once again told...

at AmCon: The most tense scene I saw in any movie this year was Marion...

writes: Last week The Atlantic published the article “Why I Hope to Die by 75” by Ezekiel...

Yesterday I went to the launch of AltFem, a new magazine from the people who...

I had to cut a lot from the book, and this chapter was eccentric and...