Below, Tom Kallene writes about God in the Sleepless Night, and all I can say is, I wish I could take such sleepless nights in stride as Tom apparently does. This is my fifth in a row. It has been a harrowing week - interiorly, not exteriorly. A panorama of futility has opened up to me [...]
To love is to be vulnerable. We see that not only when we look at the cross, we see it also in our daily lives. There is no "safe love" any more than there is "safe sex". To use psychological terms, you simply can not engage your libido in the world without getting hurt. I use [...]
Why watch a Christian movie? Why go to a Christian play? I mean, either one is going to be awful, right? Well ... right. And that's the problem. When our culture was Christian, our art was Christian. Shakespeare's plays are the best example of profound dramatic art written from a Christian (indeed a Catholic) [...]
You'll find here at the Ink Desk Sophia Mason's interesting summary of "philosophy versus science", a debate which has been raging at the Ink Desk since Joseph Pearce had the audacity to criticize a joke, something I would never do ("speaking as a comic in all seriousness," as Bobby Bitman used to say). What I find [...]
Here's just a peek into the blessed life we lead while on the road for the Theater of the Word Incorporated. February saw us in the wilds of South Dakota, with very appreciative audiences for The Valentine Dialogues and The Call. The ever hospitable Doom family hosted us in Wagner, and Fr. Ranek, the best priest [...]
The great lyricist of Tin Pan Alley, Yip Harburg , was that odd thing - a witty atheist. Take, for instance, this little ditty ... Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree; And only God who makes the tree Also makes the fools like me. But only fools like [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzBT39gx-TE&list=UUxgJN4CAXV9e4nEOcxqGdTg&index=6&feature=plcp The above link leads to a scene from Tolkien's Catholic Worldview, hosted by Joseph Pearce and featuring Yours Truly as J.R.R. Tolkien and Theater of the Word Actor Al Marsh as C.S. Lewis. The program was quite well received when it originally aired last spring. I am told it will air again on EWTN Friday, [...]
Here's a link to an article my friend Kevin Fraser sent me. I have been on the road and have just gotten around to reading it. It's about the media and the Catholic Ghetto. It's quite good. Some highlights ... *** The results of such efforts are, in Nicolosi’s words, “predictably amateur,” lacking either professional polish [...]
It has long been a teaching in the Catholic Faith, as well as something recognizable in natural philosophy, that there is only one Truth. There is not a truth for you and a truth for me; a truth for science and a truth for religion, a truth for Monday and a truth for Tuesday. But the [...]
We had three funerals to attend three days in a row last week, all for the parents of friends or family who had died - two Catholic funerals and one Protestant. The Protestant funeral was at an "African American" church in North St. Louis County. My wife and I were pretty much the only white people [...]
