Responding to your tools

What is the way of the Lord? This is the question I attempted to type, but autocorrect took my typo and transformed the question into the following: What is the soy of the Lord? And this seems to me to

Responding to your tools

What is the way of the Lord? This is the question I attempted to type, but autocorrect took my typo and transformed the question into the following: What is the soy of the Lord? And this seems to me to

Strange Fruit

This post will be another ramble. Be warned. I would define the claim to theory in the humanities as impatience systematized. Out of Judaism grown impatient at the everlasting delay of the messianic came strange fruit. Today, this impatience has

Strange Fruit

This post will be another ramble. Be warned. I would define the claim to theory in the humanities as impatience systematized. Out of Judaism grown impatient at the everlasting delay of the messianic came strange fruit. Today, this impatience has

Dear Prudence

Some weeks ago, a friend of mine was invited to an advanced screening of Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths. As he described it, the whole audience loved the film, but he realized in retrospect that this audience, by virtue of who

Dear Prudence

Some weeks ago, a friend of mine was invited to an advanced screening of Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths. As he described it, the whole audience loved the film, but he realized in retrospect that this audience, by virtue of who

Two Signs

Hans Urs Von Balthasar is a thinker who has, more than any other, given me a language with which I can begin understand the artistic vocation and the larger, more general vocation of love. Tonight I have begun revisiting his

Two Signs

Hans Urs Von Balthasar is a thinker who has, more than any other, given me a language with which I can begin understand the artistic vocation and the larger, more general vocation of love. Tonight I have begun revisiting his

Creating a Distance

And suddenly, one day, he realizes that a Christian life ought to have a unity: not talent here and piety there, for God is in fact the giver of both and both ought to be brought to perfection in God.

Creating a Distance

And suddenly, one day, he realizes that a Christian life ought to have a unity: not talent here and piety there, for God is in fact the giver of both and both ought to be brought to perfection in God.

We Are The Men That God Made Mad

But the moment he begins to enter into his work and to be an artist, the moment he catches sight of a task, the moment it becomes clear to him what it intends, what he wants, what he plans, he

We Are The Men That God Made Mad

But the moment he begins to enter into his work and to be an artist, the moment he catches sight of a task, the moment it becomes clear to him what it intends, what he wants, what he plans, he

Love Alone is Credible

Love alone is credible; nothing else can be believed. This is the achievement, the “work” of faith: to recognize this absolute prius, which nothing else can surpass; to believe that there is such a thing as love, absolute love, and

Love Alone is Credible

Love alone is credible; nothing else can be believed. This is the achievement, the “work” of faith: to recognize this absolute prius, which nothing else can surpass; to believe that there is such a thing as love, absolute love, and