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The Story God Is Telling at the Present Time
AFTER A YEAR OR TWO of particularly alarming and distressing events in the world and the Church, many of us have begun to think of the present day as something like the End of the World (at least, “the…
Education: Don’t Shoot the Elephant
I DON’T USUALLY TOUCH on hot button issues on this blog, preferring instead to focus…
Metamorphoses 2: The Flood Story in Detail
READING, LIKE SO MUCH OF LIFE, is all about seeing all that can be seen—not…
Metamorphoses 1: Context of the Flood
RECENTLY, WE TOOK A CLOSE LOOK at the account of the Great Flood that appears…
Gilgamesh 4: Can the Epic Still Speak to Us?
THE REAL TEST OF LITERATURE is whether it continues to speak to us, after generations…
Movie Makers Need to Read Great Literature, Too
I’VE TALKED QUITE A BIT on this blog about the importance of good stories, and how…
Holy Saturday, the Still Center of All Creation
I think in many ways Holy Saturday is my favorite day of the Sacred Triduum,…
“People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them.”
FLANNERY O’CONNOR
The Moral Imagination
Special Series: The Great Flood in Ancient Literature
Metamorphoses 1: Context of the Flood
RECENTLY, WE TOOK A CLOSE LOOK at the account of the Great Flood that appears in the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh and found that, although it superficially resembles a similar…
Gilgamesh 4: Can the Epic Still Speak to Us?
THE REAL TEST OF LITERATURE is whether it continues to speak to us, after generations or even millennia. We’ve almost finished our examination of the Epic of Gilgamesh and its…
Gilgamesh 3: What Does the Flood Teach Us?
IN THE PAST COUPLE OF POSTS in this series, we’ve been looking at the Great Flood narrative found in the Epic of Gilgamesh, trying to put the flood story into…