Run Toward Holiness
"In 1976, a Guinean priest named Robert Sarah was made rector of John XXIII Minor Seminary in Conakry, Guinea. The previous leadership of...
Faith and Dystopia on Doxacast
I sat down to record a conversation with Doxacast, the Christian sci-fi/fantasy podcast associated with Doxacon. We discussed the history...
"First Reformed" Preaches the Bad News
"There’s a kernel of an interesting religious film in First Reformed, the new arthouse release from writer-director Paul Schrader...
Learning to See America
I discuss teaching U.S. history through primary sources at Great Hearts schools: "As for the particular question of teaching American...
Bedecking the Bride of Christ at the Met
"The best plaque at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibit Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination has little to do with...
Terraforming Ourselves
I review Science Fiction: A Literary History: "[W]hat becomes clear from a survey of science fiction’s history is that, if there’s one...
Resisting the Voice of Thanos
I made another appearance on the podcast God and Comics, this accompanied by my wife Leah Libresco Sargeant, chatting with a geeky priest...
Sacred Art as an Antidote to Pornography
I profiled the sculptor Dony Mac Manus, and he told me about how he sees his figural art as a way to help heal a pornified culture. He...
Down with Ads, Up with Art
"When Calvin Klein plasters billboards with a sprawl of underwear-clad Kardashians, the company is recapitulating the harasser’s logic of...
The Divine (Situational) Comedy
"The Good Place is the most unexpectedly profound show on television. NBC’s afterlife sitcom, which just concluded its second season,...
