Melancholy as Muse: Christian Spirituality and the Music of Chris Cornell
Melancholy can also be a beautiful disposition of the soul.
It’s Gonna Take a Lot to Drag Me Away From You: Divine Pilgrimage in Dante’s Comedy and Toto’s Africa
Toto’s “Africa” displays all the features of a Comedy in miniature
Heaven’s Garden
It was a night like any other as Sam Finnegan pulled into his home on Washington St. Another shift of involuntary overtime on patrol led to his late arrival, but it did feel good to see the light on inside; Erin, his better half, had stayed up waiting for him
Ancient Church Orders Reviewed
Paul L. Bradshaw, Early Church Orders Revisited, Joint Liturgical Studies 80 (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2015). This little book was my Christmas present to myself this year. (Along with Günter Wand’s recording of Bruckner 8 in Lübeck Cathedral – magnificent.) I’d been wanting to read it for some months, and the
The Great God Leviathan
Ishmael, alone among the crew of the Pequod, worships the whale, and Ishmael alone is spared.
The Legend Of Zelda, Despair in the World, and the Christian Hope
The dark and gloomy atmosphere of Majora’s Mask makes it beautiful, reflecting the brokenness of the real world.
Six Theses
He stared up at the spire, damaged in a storm by an electric warning from God and shoddily repaired with wood.
The Root of All Evil
Money is the ultimate idol, and to love it is to worship the state.
Southern Harmony: The Complex and Fulfilling Theology of O Brother, Where Art Thou
Christ speaks in moments of contemplation, in moments of wandering and confusion, in the unspoken moments in which we do not allow ourselves to trust and fall.