Saving Grace By Kirsten Powers (Convergent Books, 2021) To say that grace is in desperately short supply in our public discourse is one thing. To delve into...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Ted Lasso is teaching boys how to be men and men how to be good people. Right there on television, where the opposite usually happens. The American...
The Future Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats (Fantasy Records, 2021) You might think bearded, tattooed, perpetual-hat-wearing indie rocker-meets-soul...
Squid Game Created by Hwang Dong-hyuk (Netflix, 2021) The Second Vatican Council reminded all of the faithful that we must read and respond to the “signs of...
Hey What Low (Sub Pop Records, 2021) Creative freedom, vision, collaboration, and discipline: These are very difficult things to hold together, especially when...
Water parks, swirling cameras, gospel choirs, mink coats, televangelists, and, at the center of it all, Tammy Faye. When the PTL (short for “Praise the Lord”)...
The Defiant Middle By Kaya Oakes (Broadleaf Books, 2021) Jane Goodall once said, “It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why...
Did you know that if you’re a poor and unemployed single mother, before you can get any financial assistance from the government you must have a job? On top of...
It happens every year. The opening chords of Vince Guaraldi’s “O Tannenbaum” surprise me in a coffee shop or store. Notes dance around like falling snow and...
It’s trendy to talk about faith as something that exists in competition with culture. But what if instead of engaging in culture wars, we flipped the script...
