The Glass Confessional
“Awaiting their good counsel – and that of others who will want to remain anonymous – I invoke the sweet but sharp spirit of St. Thomas...
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"Drawing on my fine command of language,
I said nothing." –Robert Benchley
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All That Jazz
On a hot Tuesday in August 1958, photographer Art Kane summoned a host of musicians to a Harlem brownstone for a photo shoot. The...
Not coming to a World Youth Day near you…
Roman Amerio's Iota Unum is a big doorstop of a book, one that covers a sprawling territory. But surprisingly, the brief section that I...
#NeverNebuchadnezzar
Darryl Hart's blog is contrarian to the point of cognitive dissonance. And it is also routinely brilliant. Of course so were all sorts of...
Very Angry Birds
By JON RONSON, NYT 2.12.15 • As she made the long journey from New York to South Africa, to visit family during the holidays in 2013,...
Rapper's Delight (serves two)
The slam poem that begins Kirk Franklin's Losing My Religion articulates the singer's attempt to go beyond denominational theology and...
2nd again…
Jean Fleming is a writer who tells stories and scribbles on restaurant napkins and casually quotes people like Cicero and Katherine Anne...
Special K
The eighties were the decade that gave us leg warmers, Tammy Faye Bakker, and Miami Vice. They also gave us some of the best material...
Red collar intellectuals, blue collar multiculturalists?
Over at the textured 'Against the Grain' blog Chis Blosser quotes Daniel Flynn. It is fascinating, especially for the people now ...
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