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Treebisons, Brickchildren

Some really striking, lovely, vivid sculpture from Ellen Jewettmore! there are rats!and Brad Spencermore!Via Matt Jones and Wesley Hill respectively.

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The Martyrs’ Rose

Given my whole thing with roses, you know I had to link you to this.

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“Coming Out Catholic: The Movie”: Me at AmCon

on a truly excellent film:At the Level Ground film festival the other weekend, I got to see “Desire of the Everlasting Hills,” a truly moving and well-made documentary—and an example of the movement I...

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“Flying Camels, Butterflies, And Twizzles”: In Which I am a Sports Correspondent

for the American Spectator:In early January, I attend my very first professional sports competition. The U.S. National Figure Skating Championships have already been going on for four days; the event...

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The Mask of Obedience

Last year I wrote this really scattershot, unsatisfying post about “The Beauty of Obedience,” rescuing obedience as a positive term and a category you’re allowed to care about. I recognize that that...

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Cherry Blossom Season in Japan

Some luminous photos. Via Ratty.

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“Geishas by Gaslight”: I review a show at the Freer

for AmCon:The Freer Gallery named their show of wood-block prints by fin de siecle Japanese artist Kobayashi Kiyochika “Master of the Night” (on display through July 27th), but night is ancient and...

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I Am a Lonely City: Xiao Yang’s “Love Letter”

Some of these are terrific:more (via Jesse Walker I think?)

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Art as a Vocation: Gay and Catholic Book Extra!

What do we want? Eve’s book! When do we want it? …Soon! (Preorder now; it releases 10/20.)I drafted a chapter on art as a vocation but cut it because I couldn’t figure out a structure, which is always...

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Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A “Gay and Catholic” DVD Extra

This is the post about “possibilities for publicly honoring nonmarital sacrificial love,” and there are a lot of directions I could go with it.I could jump into the ongoing conversation about vowed...

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“QUIZ: Modernist Church or Communist Building?”

Ooh, this is gonna sting. Via the Rattus.

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“How Should Secular People Approach Sacred Art?”: The Best Essay of Its Kind

I’ve read a ton of these and Pelagia Horgan’s appreciation of Fra Angelico is the best by far. Give it time to build:The loveliest image I know is Fra Angelico’s ‘Entry of the Blessed into Paradise’, a...

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Fra Angelico and the Sex-Hating Church

A really rambling post.Now that my book is out I’ve been doing a lot of interviews, and in many of them I’ve been asked to tell my conversion story. A huge part of my conversion involved realizing that...

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A Church Shot Through with Light

Gorgeous pictures. Not a working church, I think, more of an idea, but still. Via MLY>

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“Meet the Gay, Celibate Catholic Who’s Shaking Up the Sexuality Debates”:...

interviews me for RNS:A few decades ago, there were basically two options for people who wanted to follow Jesus but were attracted to the same gender: They could either throw off religion and embrace...

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Corpus Christi Weirdness and Beauty Around the World

Today is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus so we’re still celebrating, I guess, Jesus’ body parts. Roll with it. Here are some photos from our big, old, weird church. My favorites are the...

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“How This Tree Growing 40 Different Fruits at Once Was Made”: io9

overlooks the obvious explanation:This tree growing 40 different types of fruit—including varieties of peaches, plums, apricots, and almonds—may look like something plucked straight from the...

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“The Sinner Teodora” Takes Viewers Inside a Romanian Women’s Monastery

Last night I watched “Pacatoasa Teodora” (The Sinner Teodora), an elliptical documentary by director Anca Hirte. It follows a young woman named Teodora as she prepares to make her final vows (? this...

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“Farewell, Christmas fair and free!”: A Candlemas Carol

beautiful:February 2 is Candlemas, the Feast of the Purification, so here’s a medieval Candlemas carol.Revertere, revertere, The queen of bliss and of beauty.Behold what life that we run in, Frail to...

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Amy Welborn on Church Art, Devotions, And Sacramentals as Works of Mercy

with a powerful story of grief and the Stations of the Cross:…So, yes, mercy. How does it happen? How does God communicate his mercy and love to this hurting world? Through us, and in many ways, first...

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