Score! Just got a note from Michael Fahey about enjoying my article on Dalí's The Sacrament of the Last Supper that clued me in to check online and discover that the Jesuits' ever-impressive weekly magazine America had at last printed the piece. (Trimmed down to half the size I'd submitted it in, I knew that it was going to be kept on file for a ( Read more... )

There were two things I'd picked up at Easter from friends that I wanted to copy into my journal for memory's keeping. The first, a poem I saw on Professor Michel René Barnes's Facebook page. This appealed to a number of people, apparently, as I saw more people pick it up and reprint it:Make no mistake: if He rose at all ( Read more... )

Some excellent moments throughout the last week or so. While being sort of marooned away from family was not my first preference for the Easter holiday, I had some chances to make up for that. One highlight was having a good talk with my brother Joe at the beginning of April in celebration of his birthday, reminding me again how after my visit to ( Read more... )

I have done a profound amount of writing and typing in the last week or ten days, but none of it has been in my journal. I've got to figure out how to be more attentive with that ( Read more... )

I still seem to be slow enough that I'm not working in the time to journal very much at the moment. Daily life is more-or-less dominated by the regular rhythms of the semester now, of course, and so perhaps while that continues to grab my constant attention, it isn't "exceptional" enough to make me think that "I need to write this down!" Still, ( Read more... )

A great line in Christoph Cardinal Schönborn's God Sent His Son: A Contemporary Christology, which I'm currently reading with my students in my Jesus course:Indeed, the development of Christian art is comprehensible only on the basis of the Nicene Creed, for if the Son were only a creature, albeit the first among creatures [and not, of his very ( Read more... )

Behold!:

MICHAELMAS!


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Rainstorm passing overhead without much fuss. Suddenly, after it seemed to have given up all its energy, it let loose with a sudden flash of lightning that struck nearby and a single thunderclap that not only shook the house but also set off all the car alarms in the neighbourhood. I confess a certain childish glee in that moment ( Read more... )

A brief litany of current distraction:

• Had an enjoyable (but too) brief Skype chat with Dan and Amy the other day, partially in response to an offbeat but semi-serious question from Dan about trying to find a decent comic book version of Scripture, as something to catch young Owen's eye. As a young and avid comic book fan, in retrospect it looks ( Read more... )