The Dangerous Pleasures of an Intellectual Life Neil Dhingra September 29, 2020 Books, Commentary, Roman Catholic Church By Neil Dhingra In her Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, the St. John’s College tutor Zena Hitz presents an engagingly diverse (and often imprisoned) set of thinkers: Dorothy Day... Read More...
The Eighth Commandment: Theft for a Good Cause? Neil Dhingra September 14, 2020 Bible, Catechesis, Commentary, Roman Catholic Church, Ten Commandments Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Neil Dhingra In Alex Gibney’s The Inventor, a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, the turtlenecked and deep-voiced founder and erstwhile CEO of Theranos, now i... Read More...
Hope as the World Is Ending Jonathan Mitchican July 15, 2020 Commentary, Roman Catholic Church By Jonathan Mitchican Life in the time of coronavirus is hard.The battle that the human race now wages against this pandemic is beyond anything known in our lifetime. Many people have described it as apocaly... Read More...
The Plague and the Pandemic Neil Dhingra July 9, 2020 Books, Commentary, Roman Catholic Church By Neil Dhingra Unsurprisingly, amidst this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Albert Camus’ The Plague has again become popular. According to the writer Samuel Earle, in Japan more copies sold in March than during ... Read More...
The Promise and Perils of Preaching Experience Timothy O'Malley June 10, 2020 Commentary, Lay Voices on Preaching, Ministry, Roman Catholic Church This post continues a series of essays on preaching from the perspective of lay people. Previous entries may be found here. By Tim O’Malley I often hear two critiques of Roman Catholic preaching. The firs... Read More...
Recovering the Magic in Onward Sam Keyes May 14, 2020 Commentary, Movies, Reviews & Culture, Roman Catholic Church By Sam Keyes Pixar’s new Onward, made available early on Disney Plus thanks to the pandemic, is a wonderful movie. Of course I was going to say that. It is the gentle apotheosis of so much fantasy nerd cultu... Read More...
Papal Preaching and the Pandemic Neil Dhingra May 13, 2020 Commentary, Lay Voices on Preaching, Ministry, Roman Catholic Church This post continues a series of essays on preaching from the perspective of lay people. Previous entries may be found here. By Neil Dhingra Perhaps the most haunting photographs from this “Time of the Vir... Read More...
No Other Story: Preaching as Catechesis Caleb Congrove April 28, 2020 Commentary, Lay Voices on Preaching, Ministry, Roman Catholic Church This is the first in a series of essays on preaching written by lay people. By Caleb Congrove About five years ago, I wrote a little essay about preaching. That piece weighed in on a conversation that had... Read More...
