A Prince of a Boy: How One Gay Catholic Helped Change the World By Brian McNaught (Cascade Books, 2025) When Brian McNaught publicly affirmed that he is gay...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Philip Kolin’s new poetry collection, Evangeliaries (Angelico Press) is a tribute to the power of scripture and the Christian tradition to awaken the...
Strange little beasts inhabit the margins of medieval manuscripts. In the famous Luttrell Psalter, a man-bird hybrid grabs a floral border as his bird half...
Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles Alan Sparhawk & Trampled by Turtles (Sub Pop, 2025) On November 5, 2022, Mimi Parker died. Singer, songwriter, and...
If God Were a Great Big Bear By Paul Harbridge, Illustrated by Marta Dorado (Beaming Books, 2025) “God is in me? And you? And the kitten?” My 3-year-old found...
A nation with crumbling infrastructure and climate change-induced natural disasters. Civil unrest and violence fueled by a growing gap between the rich and the...
Andor Created by Tony Gilroy (Lucasfilm, 2022–present) Critically acclaimed “Star-Wars-for-adults” hit Andor concluded its spectacular two-season run with a...
Fumed Public Health Watch (NPR, 2025) The first season of Fumed, a podcast by Public Health Watch, details not just what’s polluting the air (and water and...
“Everyone deserves to be loved.” This was the answer I received when I asked my students what they thought Jesus would say if he were asked, “What is your...
For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) Japanese Breakfast (Dead Oceans, 2025) Japanese Breakfast rocketed into our music world in 2013...