Dana Gioia 39 s outstanding essay on the condition of Catholic literature published in the latest issue of First Things is now available to non-subscribers I blogged about it here last week and encourage readers to head over to First Things to read it in full nbsp His essay titled quot The Cat

The editors of the New York Times Book Review have released their list of the 10 best books of 2013 which includes 5 selections for both fiction and non-fiction I 39 m happy to see two of my favorite authors on the list Chimamanda Adichie and Donna Tartt At nytimes com the editors provide a sho

Over the last few weeks I 39 ve been speaking with a number of parents about the school where I work Xavier College Preparatory in Palm Desert CA and about the qualities that attract families Education is filled with competing theories and methods and approaches and it can be difficult to dec

In the middle of my third year in law school when I was starting to stress over the bar exam and all the things that still had to get done before I could start my career I read words from Cardinal John Henry Newman that rattled the panes of my soul nbsp nbsp The words are from his sermon quot

At Thanksgiving we hear often about the Pilgrims We recall their arrival in the New World and their interaction with Native Americans Thinking of that group of pilgrims has led me this week to return to the idea of the pilgrim in the context of our Catholic faith and to consider the motif of the

One of my favorite thinkers is the great Catholic French philosopher Etienne Gilson His work nbsp The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy so crucial to Thomas Merton 39 s turn to Catholicism has become a milepost for my own faith development So too his God and Philosophy which I first read as a seni

Teachers today are frequently told to avoid lecture for more project-based learning The catchphrase of the era is that teachers should move from being the quot sage on the stage quot to the quot guide on the side quot Teachers are urged to be quot learning designers quot or quot learning fa

I recently wrote about the horrendous case of Rebecca Ann Sedwick a 12-year-old who jumped to her death from a cement plant after enduring repeated attacks of cyber-bullying In the wake of her death the Polk County sheriff 39 s office Florida filed charges against two of Rebecca 39 s peers on

Writing about Paul Elie yesterday has me recalling a passage from his outstanding book nbsp The Life You Save May be Your Own I first read it in law school when I was searching intensely for my own place for my own path for that combination of career location and life plan that like a railroad

Readers who enjoyed yesterday 39 s post about Dana Gioia and his nbsp article on Catholic writers might be interested in Paul Elie 39 s thoughts from last year on nbsp a subject in the same family nbsp In the Dec 19 2012 nbsp New York Times in an op-ed titled quot Has Fiction Lost its Faith