This week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Gloria speaks with Professor Jessica Hooten Wilson about the Catholic imagination—exploring writers like Toni Morrison and the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich.
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
The spiritual depths of Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison’s fiction conveyed much of the pain, sacrifice and trauma that exemplifies so much of the African-American experience—which is why it makes some white readers uncomfortable.
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
Total freedom is false freedom. How rules and constraints make our lives better
Limitations and rules are part of our daily lives. How do they make our lives more full?
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
The keys to the success of ‘Derry Girls’: Northern Ireland, Catholicism and the ordinary lives of teenage girls
The third season of ‘Derry Girls’ has plenty of laughs to offer and goes deeper with all its main characters.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Jane Austen’s greatest lesson? Becoming the person God created you to be
Jane Austen’s literary genius lies in the fact that she crafts stories that impart the most pressing of human concerns in what seem at first the most mundane of experiences. It makes her a valuable guide to life.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Kurt Vonnegut would still be amused.
The absolute refusal to accept handed-down truths—whether in politics, science, religion or art—was a constant in Kurt Vonnegut’s life and work.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Predicting (and preventing) the next civil war
Barbara F. Walter offers a handy guide for predicting where political instability is most likely to occur—and it is usually when that country is moving away from democracy.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘The Good Fight’ is the show we should all be watching right now
“The Good Fight” is ending its run by ramping up the surrealism—and the idea that we are all living in a very real political nightmare.