I’ve been blogging away, thanks to the support of people who have bought me dragons. (N.B. I could always use more dragons.) But I also have a few essays coming out in periodicals in the coming months – I’ll link to them here when they become available. Ian...
A peacock mosaic at the recently excavated Church of the Holy Apostles in southern Hatay province, Turkey. ⎯⎯ The Holkham Bible Picture Book, ca. 1330 ⎯⎯ A while back, I chatted with Joy Clarkson about old books. Here’s the conversation in text form. Some tags on my...
On hospitality and public memory.
Claudia Rilling ⎯⎯ In my capacity as … um, let me revisit that later … anyway, I have declared 2021 to be The Year of Repair! Also, I am a Homebound Symphony. ⎯⎯ Re: my recent issue on fakes and fakery, see Byung-Chul Han: The Chinese have two different concepts of a...
Toward a Christian grammar of gratitude.
Twofold overture: I didn’t expect, at all, to get the kind of response I have received to my Buy Me a Coffee initiative. I don’t primarily mean the financial contributions – though those have been welcome, because they allow me to focus on work on my blog that I want...
Toward a logic of generativity.
Lessons from René Girard and St. Ignatius of Loyola.
Learning to offer our possessions and our selves freely.
Why our economic imagination needs a new goal.
One of the most irreligious countries on earth is getting religion. What’s going on?
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