The Latin Mass gave me a hunger for beauty and a reverence for the sacred. It also made me bitter and arrogant.
Zac Davis
Zac Davis is an associate editor and the senior director for digital strategy for America. He also co-hosts the podcast, Jesuitical.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: In Phil Klay’s ‘Missionaries’ God and violence meet in America’s forever-wars
With his debut novel, Phil Klay lays out our country’s new way of waging war, without clear beginnings, middles or ends and without clear moral goods and evils.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
It’s okay to be upset by the Bishops-Biden controversy—but please, don’t leave the church over it.
If you’re thinking about leaving, your feelings are valid. But the biggest thing you could do in response to this is go receive the Eucharist.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
This is not God’s justice: George Floyd and the Derek Chauvin trial
We are told that this is justice served, and yet there remains a man who should still be breathing who instead is dead.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
We’re all desperate for hope. Ted Lasso is here to deliver it.
It is the perfect time to sink into the couch and run through the most hopeful show on television: “Ted Lasso.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We’re being too Protestant about the vaccine rollout
And in the midst of the pandemic chaos, we have become fixated on figuring out who are the deserving.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
‘O God, let 2020 go to hell.’ A New Year’s prayer of rage
Lord, I don’t know what it actually means for a year to go to hell. But if hell is hot, let 2020 burn.
Posted inAdvent Reflections, Faith
This is the Advent of all Advents to give yourself permission to actually rest.
A Reflection for the Second Wednesday of Advent
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
God, please just give me (and the country) a little patience.
The only reaction that matters right now for most of us is spiritual. We need patience. We need to let the votes be counted.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Q&A with Bishop Robert Barron: Catholics can dialogue without compromising our beliefs
Bishop Barron on talking to atheists, young people and the Black Lives Matter Movement.