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Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone has written for Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Paris Review and Esquire. His books include Ember Days, a collection of stories and Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Contemplating creation through the lens of a wildlife camera
Bobcats, bears, foxes, hares, deer, raccoons, birds and the occasional coyote: Each day we capture wildlife on our trail camera, and my twin daughters continually become more entranced by animals.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
The Nuns Who Wrote Poems
In the mid-20th century, several women religious were writing and publishing ambitious poetry.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
With my daughters at home for school, I am finally getting a Catholic education
I am getting a window into the daily lives of my daughters, and I truly understand what my wife has always told me: Catholic schooling has defined her view of the world.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Revisiting ‘Nothing Sacred’ : A show about gritty parish life we could use today
The television series about an urban Catholic church was groundbreaking, and there has been nothing like it since.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
A skeptic and a believer team up on CBS’ ‘Evil’
It is a great set up for a television series—and yes, the comparisons to Scully and Mulder are warranted.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A tragic story of ambition and despair
“An Orchestra of Minorities” is a profoundly tragic story of ambition and despair and how both come from the struggle to love.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Jordan Peele’s ‘The Twilight Zone’ is ready to make Americans think again.
Jordan Peele’s incarnation of the show will certainly get people thinking—and talking.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: To hell and back
A comprehensive new book takes us all the way through Hell.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Time’s a’wastin’: two new books on procrastination
“Anyone can do any amount of work,” wrote the American humorist Robert Benchley, “provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” Procrastination is an act of will, the choice to postpone what needs to be done. We are lying to ourselves when we procrastinate—yet everybody does it. For some, […]