I’ve recently begun discerning becoming a Lay Dominican, and what better way than to read? Today, I’ll review one of those books: Kevin Vost’s Hounds of the Lord: Great Dominican Saints Every Catholic Should Know. […]
I’m not sure anyone wants to take credit for this book. “Agenda for the Third Millennium” was an unexpected find one day at a used bookstore for theological nerds. The store was dangerous, full of […]
by Nancy Parode When my high school literature students fall in love with science fiction – usually via our study of Fahrenheit 451 or Arthur C. Clarke’s “The Nine Billion Names of God” – they […]
Click Here For This Week’s Readings. Screenwriting coaches recommend breaking a story into “beats” — moments within the narrative arc which mark the rising and falling of dramatic tension. At the end of the second […]
Click Here For This Week’s Readings. One of the more consistent rules of visiting a mystical, supernatural realm is, be careful what you eat. In Greek mythology, Persephone ate some food from the Underworld […]
When Flannery O’Connor was asked if she thought that universities stiffly young writers she replied, “They don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.” Since […]
Earlier this week, I realized my mother is the one who taught me how to tell a good story. My head holds memories of my siblings and I seated at the kitchen table while my […]
Before reading The Handmaid’s Tale, a friend of mine told me it was, “God’s Not Dead for secular people.” As apt as this might seem for some, it truly is a gross insult – at […]
Welcome to our very first Catholic Creative Spotlight post! This is the first in a series of interviews that will be conducted with Catholics who work in or make contributions to their respective creative fields. […]
If you’re even remotely familiar with J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, you know that Sauron is the bad guy. He’s basically evil personified. So what could we possibly learn about holiness from him? “Just […]
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