Seeking the Ground in Our Day: Paul Murray’s “The Bee Sting”
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting is an intense, six-hundred-page novel about a contemporary Irish family of four trying to find their bearings in our world of change…
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting is an intense, six-hundred-page novel about a contemporary Irish family of four trying to find their bearings in our world of change…
During the season of Lent, Christians are called to the act of repentance. Like a lot of spiritual practices, repentance is approached in a variety of ways.…
Sarah Bernstein’s 2023 novel Study for Obedience has been shortlisted by a number of literary contests, including The Booker Prize. The novel rests not on plot but…
We often know less than we think we know an opening comment on prayerful discernment She laughed at that and went on gabbing like a bird Perhaps…
In his book Messengers of God, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel conducts a careful reading of the Torah in order to search the mysteries of God and the…
I recently watched a wonderful South Korean film titled The Way Home, a 2002 movie with English subtitles. It tells the story of a spoiled boy from…
A smattering of autumn yellow in the trees lining the quad banners waving gaily above the stadium framed by clear blue sky the marching band plays the…
The continued fascination with Nazi Germany in every form of art and media is, in part, rooted in the mystery and allure of evil. It is so…
Margaret Atwood is best known as the author of A Handmaid’s Tale, but she has published over forty works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, short stories, and children’s…
We thought those old cars could never die smiles grimly given tobacco juice brown and bitter curses drawled under the breath the foundation of things. --broken crankshaft,…
“To be a person is to be transcendent. We therefore know about the transcendent, God, only because we participate in that mode of being.” - David Walsh,…
Jesus is in this northern mining town he walks the street at night beneath the streetlight’s muted glow missing a few teeth. He’s always alone, and when…
I skied beneath the light of the moon through forest and clearing my dog ahead startling rabbits and partridge to flight— to our mutual delight— Mars piercing…
Eric Voegelin’s introduction to The Ecumenic Age is a rich, evocative piece of writing. Regarding religious structures, Voegelin was concerned about the “doctrinization of symbols” that impede…
In the realm of Catholic or Christian literature, one question I have never seen confronted directly is whether a writer necessarily needs to be devout within a…