
Deep Down Things
Nicodemus, Doug Weaver
Pentecost 2012 issue.

Friday Links
Flannery Abroad Conference with Phil Klay; Andrew Callis in Presence Journal ; Steve Knepper is (Somewhat) Against “Selected Poems”; Rod Dreher’s Weird Case for Religion; Down in my heart to stay; George Weigel On Flannery O’Connor’s Centenary; B. H. Fairchild: PoetryLA Series

Education as a mystery of cooperation
Nature, grace, and the incarnational reality of education

Friday Links
On a Gnat’s Horizon by Brian Brodeur; Joshua Hren on James Joyce; Substack Poets of Note from Poetics with Robert Charboneau; “What is Art, and Why Does It Matter?”; Congrats to Chrism Press!; The Catholic Imagination: How Do We Define it? How Do We Use It?; First Things Poetry Prize

Orphans of the storm
Evelyn Waugh’s masterclass in using exterior scenery to dramatize matters of the heart.

Friday Links
B.D. McClay on Northanger Abbey; Dana Gioia on Gerard Manley Hopkins; Wilfred M. McClay reviews Arthur Kirsch’s Auden and Christianity; JMW on “Man Is Born to Behold Beauty“; Collegium’s The Art of Friendship

Is Dappled Things too down on the Catholic writing scene?
A response to a recent book review in our magazine

Friday Links
Great Vespers; Julia Yost on The Scandal of Dogmatism; The God of Wes Anderson; Daniel McInerny asks: What Moves Your Heart?; Pope Leo on the workers in the vineyard; A Ukrainian Crime Caper That Undermines Expectations; MAiD: Are We Sleepwalking Down a Slippery Slope?

We’re Holding the Blossoms Up High
Reflections on safety, boundaries, and wandering in the modern world.

Friday Links
Christopher Honey reviews Fret Not by Michael Shindler; Fr. Herman Majkrzak: Recovering a Full Theological Vision of the Ascension; Catholic Culture Podcast and Fr. John Nepil; Ascending to the Seven Virtues of J.R.R. Tolkien; Margaret Noodin reviews Matthew Brennan’s The Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan; Cardinal Dolan on NY’s Assisted Suicide Bill

Passacaglia and predestination
Biber’s musical masterpiece reveals the logic of beauty straining for its proper end.
Friday Links
St. Rita of Cascia; A Rose in Winter; Matthew Milliner: The Puffins and Evelyn Underhill; Itxu Díaz: The Enduring Legacy of the Spanish Mystics; Tara Isabella Burton on transgression and art

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Jacques Maritain Prize in Nonfiction
Dappled Things is pleased to announce the winners of our 2024 Jacques Maritain Prize for Nonfiction.

Good Country People
Daniel Fitzpatrick argues that, if there is an ethical purpose of art, it’s to make us feel rightly.

Friday Links
A Cultural Vision for Conservatism; Catholic Social Teaching; Converting Beauty into Prayer; Julian of Norwich’s Radical Trust; Benjamin Parviz on Gabriel Marcel

Educating for eternity
On the cultivation of beauty through Catholic education

Friday Links
Habemus Papem!; DT’s Easter Issue; New Issue of NVR; Joyful Writing with Shemaiah Gonzalez; Collegium GCL Series; Persuasion on the small press

You gave me hyacinths first a year ago
Lyndall Gordon's "The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot's Hidden Muse"

Friday Links
“The Pause” by Christopher Honey; Confession Eclipsed; John Wilson on “The Erosion of Sin”; How God Sees Us; Painting with Sunlight: The Stained Glass Art of Harry Clarke; Who Will Help a Stranded Manatee?

The scapegoat that broke the cycle
Rene Girard and the power of the Easter miracle

Friday Links
We have a winner!; Out of Practice; An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here’s How to Survive; Poetess (and Possible Future Saint) Captures Essence of Holy Saturday; Ishion Hutchinson on Les Murray; Catholic Culture Podcast: On René Girard—Trevor Cribben Merrill