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Growing up during the height of the Space Race, Jones recalled in a recent interview on our podcast, A Resounding Yes!, how seriously the whole country followed American space missions. Magazine covers and live television broadcasts documented launches through splashdowns. Teachers paused their regular lessons and rolled televisions into classrooms so students could watch history unfold.
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I may have been several hundred miles away in Florida, but thanks to a steady stream of photos, videos, and updates from Macon, I was able to follow along as a group of Dominican friars, with banjos in tow, helped celebrate the launch of a Catholic literary and cultural magazine.
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A nearly three-thousand-year-old epic has sparked renewed interest among modern readers with the release of this year’s summer blockbuster The Odyssey. First orated in front of live audiences, then written down into a long-form poem and subsequently translated, novelized, and developed across other mediums, there’s no shortage of forms that the Odyssey—like Athena within the story—has shape-shifted into.
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In adoration last week, I noticed Fruit Loops scattered on the floor under the pew in front of me. I started fretting over them—where did they come from? A child must have dropped them earlier in the day. How long had they been there?
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My Son, the Cleric The countdown to the priesthood begins.By Jim Moore, Contributing Writer Recently, I was outside pulling grass that always seems to grow better in the seams of our sidewalk than it does on our lawn. It makes me wish our HOA would approve all-rock landscaping. With apologies to Joni Mitchell, I might […]
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One avenue of intimacy with our Lord is seeking a deeper understanding of our own hearts and how we can better offer them to His love—an idea that Tanner Kalina thoroughly adventures through in his new book, All Your Heart, available July 20 from Ascension Press.
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Why is it that we can find countless resources for parents praying for children who have left the faith, but far fewer for children praying for their parents’ return? Although I’m blessed that my own parents are faithful, practicing Catholics, a recent conversation prompted me to reflect on the unique loneliness that often accompanies this sorrowful journey.
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If someone had told my younger self that my eleventh-grade English class could be redeemed by uncovering hidden themes of Catholicism and Truth in secular novels, I probably would have laughed. Public school teachers rarely took that leap. But the Ignatius Critical Edition of The Great Gatsby does exactly that.
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It’s not as if he’s an obscure saint. Christians around the world are fully aware of the huge role he played in salvation history. After all, during Advent and into the Christmas season, there are tons of images of him up in stores and homes standing right next to Mary and the newborn baby Jesus.
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When I picked up Batman & Faith: Essays on the Dark Knight and the Soul from Voyage Comics, I expected to appreciate it from afar. I thought it would be an interesting collection for “serious” Batman fans, who know every Robin, every timeline, every villain origin story.
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