: “Will this enlarge or diminish me?”
: Finished reading: All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart 📚
: From The Cherry Tree Carol (1951)
: Finished reading: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa 📚 Haunting.
: Nikolai Ge, Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1882), via Alan Jacobs
: The magnificent city of Dordrecht
: “However valuable philosophy and learning may be in their proper places, they are valuable to the …
: The seven liberal arts as servants of theology
: Finished reading: They Flew by Carlos M. N. Eire 📚
: Two sermons by Augustine newly discovered!
: Brought out this old gem for this week’s sermon
: McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary, 133: Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects …
: Finished reading: Taking Religion Seriously by Charles Murray 📚
: Finished reading: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 📚
: Yuval Levin on the AI encyclical, Psalm 115, and the temptations of idolatry.
: Here’s an excellent list of books to shape young minds.
: Reader edition of Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas, with Tufte-style marginalia.
: Finished reading: The Sacraments by Louis-Marie Chauvet 📚
: “Let every useful thing I learned as a boy be devoted now to your service; let whatever I speak, …
: “The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it …
: Finished reading: Reparations by Nigel Biggar 📚
: I came across what someone described as “the most iconic image in the history of college marketing.” …
: Finished reading: The Corner that Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner 📚
: “When a feeble man, sprung from the dust, speaks in the name of God, we give the best proof of our …
: Michael Silverblatt’s ten rules for reading.
: Great review by Brad East of The Vanishing Church: The Church does not exist to grease the wheels …
: My latest Sabbath read. A cracking book!
: In love with “Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album” by Philip Larkin
: Illuminated “L” from 1368 (via Erin Zoutendam)
: “We do not merely study the past: we inherit it, and inheritance brings with it not only the rights …
: Micah Mattix is starting a new literary quarterly, Portico.
: Finished reading: Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth 📚
: Daniel Mitsui: According to legend, Albertus Magnus had spent thirty years devising an oracular …
: An excellent piece by Trevin Wax on why translation choices matter and picking a translation of …
: Lviv, Ukraine on the first day of spring (via Christopher Miller)
: A delightful post about an ever-changing logo.
: To keep my thinking fresh and my reading wide, I’m aiming to have four kinds of books on the …
: Finished reading: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 📚 Had a blast reading this …
: Holiday reading: non-things and all things
: “In a word, reading partakes of the Sabbath because reading is non-utilitarian. Like poetry, in …
: “The Art of healing the street” by French street artist Ememem
: Finished reading: A Web of Our Own Making by Antón Barba-Kay 📚 Absolutely brilliant treatment of the …
: “Perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the …
: “We are not called to turn the clock back to the 1950s, the robust missionary era of the eighteenth …
: Finished reading: The Theological Imagination by Judith Wolfe 📚
: Miles Smith on Russell Kirk’s tragic sense of life: Conservatives, Kirk knew, had to live with …
: Finished reading: Augustine the African by Catherine Conybeare 📚
: “It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who …
: “One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world.” – Robert Farrar Capon
: Cheered and celebrated with our 3 y/o tonight because we finally met Aslan in The Lion, the Witch …
: Samuel James on writing (and thinking) in paragraphs: Writing styles are not neutral. They are …
: “The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have …
: Emile Doumergue, Iconographie calvinienne: ouvrage dédié à l’Université de Genève
: “A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native …
: “Children are indicators of our faith in the world itself, they are emissaries of optimism, charging …
: How John Steinbeck tricked his kids into reading great books.
: Austin Kleon on his weekly family pizza + movie night
: 🎧 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms
: Finished reading: Working by Robert A. Caro 📚 Devouring my summer reads.
: “At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal …
: Finished reading: Nina Simone’s Gum by Warren Ellis 📚 Charming, obsessive.
: I’m loving micro.blog so far. It’s every bit as good as Alan Jacobs and Brad East made it out to be. …
: I discovered only today that the actor Joe Keery (who plays the lovable Steve Harrington in Stranger …
: John Ehrett on Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth: This is the one great, brutal, bittersweet …
: My first book of 2026 – superb
: Tullio Pericoli, Umberto Eco
: “My New Year’s Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envys, loves, hates, strange …
: I’ve been inspired by What Dan Read to keep a reading log of my own. More here.
: After dilly-dallying for years, I’ve finally gone ahead and made a microblog. This will serve as a …