I love horror movies because they show me the sublime. I love them for a lot of other reasons too, I admit, depending on my mood. I don’t believe in a grand, unified theory of horror, or of any other genre of film; most genres are a welter of traditions and counter-traditions. Sometimes you wa
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Hail, Star of the Sea: One museum sheds light on English Catholicism
One museum sheds light on English Catholicism
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Pride and Principle: The spiritual side of Jane Austen’s novels
Jane Austen’s novels are as much about vice and virtue as marriage and manners.
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Eating the Apple: On being baptized into a technological religion
The dogmatic thinking that convinced us that a phone could (should!) be a sheer piece of glass, that a swipe of a finger on a screen should feel like moving a real object, and that the Internet should be in our pockets has opened up tremendous possibilities.
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Listening for God in Unusual Places: The unorthodox faith of Robert Frost
What sort of divine power did Robert Frost listen to?
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Beat Attitude: Jack Kerouac’s unexpected life
Despite his popular image, Jack Kerouac was born and died a self-identified Catholic.
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Still Occupied: The Wall Street protests one year later
The Wall Street protests one year later
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Amor Extrordinario: The Latin American ministry of Mother Teresa and her sisters
The Latin American ministry of Mother Teresa and her sisters
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Playing the Ponies: How the media track presidential races
How the media track presidential races