Happy Friday! Here’s what we have for you as we head into the weekend:
Maureen Mullarkey sleeps through sermons .
What Peter Leithart is reading about: what Jesus ate, Trojan popes , Levinas , James Bond , Paul Ryan . He’s also still reading N. T. Wright, and Sara Coakley’s God, Sexuality, and the Self (posts one , two , three ).
Dr. Boli wants you to be safe .
Here at First Thoughts , the serpent makes his appearance in the Garden of Eden, Mark Movsesian breaks down the political situation in the Ukraine , and B. D. McClay justifies the existence of pop culture writing with The X-Files .
And On the Square today, Wesley J. Smith draws our attention to a miscarriage of justice, while Gina Dalfonzo praises a new adaptation of Great Expectations .
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
Letters
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…