Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.
Friday Links
New Verse Review and Ekstasis; Thomist Poets with Paige Parker; James Matthew Wilson review Jason Baxter’s Inferno; Raymond N. MacKenzie on Balzac; Daniel Pitt on Roger Scruton; A Shroud for Our Skeptical Times; Objects of Fascination by Peter Hitchens; The Pattern by The Reflection Box
Catholic Song in a Secular World
Eric Cyr discusses the Catholic imagination in secular songwriting.
Friday Links
A Deep Dive Into Contemporary Catholic Poetry with Ryan Wilson; The Lough Derg Podcast with Lanta Davis; Jeffrey Reimer: Images of the Invisible God; Jon Sweeney on Catechist Nicholas Black Elk in the Aftermath of the European Invasion; Thomist Poets Reading Series with Paige Parker; S. P. Cooper on King Arthur’s Youth: Growing Up in the Once and Future King
Friendship is an Oasis
Death Comes for the Archbishop reveals that sometimes friends have to be apart. Friendship is an oasis on the journey and sometimes moving on is the only way out of the desert.
Friday Links
Uncommon Grace: The Life of Flannery O’Connor; James Matthew Wilson on “Most of the Prodigies…”; Nimrod Journal Writing Contest; The Mystery of Consciousness: Dr. Iain McGilchrist’s Keynote at Kinross House; Patrick Kurp on the Underappreciated Jane Greer: ‘Be Able to Call It a Poem’
Dante’s new year
The Purgatorio prepares us for all that is about to come
Friday Links
Andy Fowler: The Best & Worst Movies I Watched in 2024; Anthony Domestico: The Best Books of 2024; Our Lady of Emptiness by Matthew J. Milliner; How to Give a Real Gift by Tara Isabella Burton; Manifesto! A Podcast
The Elf and the Inferno
Daniel Fitzpatrick makes the case that everyone’s favorite Christmas Elf, Buddy, is a modern-day Dante.
Friday Links
While All the Earth in Darkness Sleeps; The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify’s Plot Against Musicians; Out of the Vortex; The Big Five Publishers Have Killed Literary Fiction; Black Elk's Gift of Healing; T.S. Eliot and Abraham Lincoln: Christian Humanists
We Are Starved for Wonder: A Call to Arms
We’ll be publishing our twentieth anniversary edition next year, so you would think by now we’d have that nailed down and distilled into a pithy “elevator pitch.” Still, I found myself recently thinking about our mission again, and how it shapes our journal.
Advent Novena Meditation: Day 4
Reading for December 19.
An Inconvenient Demand
Advent thoughts from Anne Ridler’s poem: “It is good that Christmas comes at the dark dream of the year / That might wish to sleep ever. / For birth is awaking, birth is effort and pain.”
Advent Novena Meditation: Day 3
Reading for December 18.
Advent Novena Meditation: Day 2
Reading for December 17.
Festival of the Light of Lights
A Christian Recognition of Hanukkah
The Art of the Acted Word
The Advent Novena
Join us with your family and friends in praying this beautiful Advent Novena, which has become a yearly tradition for Dappled Things.
Friday Links
CATHEDRALS OF SOUND: Behind the Scenes on the Making of Fiat Lux
The Color of Dust: Beauty Matters with Jason Baxter; Sr. Carino Hodder: Of Dragons and Other Creatures; 30 Years of the Vatican Film List; A Voice from Deep Space; Thomist Poets Reading Series
Santa will find you
One mom’s examination of the stories we tell our children
Van Gogh’s Light Night
“Vincent’s ability to feel sorrow and channel it into something full of light is something I carry with me daily. Vincent taught me that when faced with suffering, we have a choice in what feelings we lean into and what we do with them.”