What are the conditions for creativity and beauty? Father Michael Rennier thinks that, perhaps, we have it all wrong.

An exclusive excerpt shared with Dappled Things readers from Daniel Fitzpatrick’s new novel.

An exclusive excerpt from Joshua Hren's new novel.

New music from Father Isaiah

Abram Van Engen’s new book invites everyone to read poetry for spiritual benefit.

Welcome to the blessed rage

The inspiration for Morten Lauridsen’s masterwork, the Christmas motet O Magnum Mysterium.

Elizabeth Lev’s new book traces the development of St. Joseph in sacred art. Through sacred art we come to know St. Joseph and the aspects of the faith he represents, but we don't read him like a book. He's a gesture towards the transcendent.

So are you, really.

Recommended reading from the Dappled Things editors.

Shortly after beginning to read, I encountered this glorious piece of writing; "Canon Geoghegan said nothing, but went on picking at his fish, methodically, earnestly, as though he were disemboweling Emmanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" This is when I was hooked. This Marshall fella writes.

Fellow reactionaries will love Michael Warren Davis’ most recent book.

Ghost stories from the notebooks of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Prepare to be frightened.

Jen Fulwiler explains how she was discouraged from public speaking and practicing the art of comedy because she’s a mother. In fact, her children were far more valuable to the creative process than she ever would have predicted.

Do you think they're coming back? They've already been disappearing for years and years and years now. The question is existential.

A new resource from Sophia Institute helps bring the beauty of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass to a growing number of interested seekers.