DarwinCatholic

     A couple weeks ago, our eight year old brought home from the library a picture book/comic called Before They Were Artists , which told ...

 There is a cycle where, after a tragedy like a school shooting which gathers massive national media attention, people say things like: ...

 Long-time readers will be familiar with commenter (and friend-of-Darwins) Bob the Ape, who has a gift for composing clever verse. Yesterday...

This past Saturday, I had the privilege of participating in the Central Ohio Symphony's concert performance of Ellis Island: The Dream o...

 There has been some noise online lately about troubles at Bishops Barron's ministry, Word on Fire . To briefly summarize: Word on Fire ...

Sigrid Undset, ca. 1905 Up today at Plough: my piece on the parallels between the tumultuous marriage at the heart of Kristin Lavransdatter,...

The Biden administration has recently floated the idea of instituting a program to pay back people's college debt. As a parent who has m...

I apologize for the virtual pages here being so quiet as of late. Although I think we both still have the state of mind where thoughts we en...

 It's probably worth noting (in light of Ukraine's suggestion that Russia be removed from the UN Security Council due to committing ...

A family in worship. (Attribution: https://lsa.umich.edu/histartvrc/news-events/all-news/search-news/a-new-discovery-in-the-michigan-sinai-a...

Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat, Vincent Van Gogh  Some while ago, I saw a photo of myself and was taken aback at the color of m...

 I'm a copious reader, and I'm not above shame at the amount of books I hauled out of the library when I told the kids it was only g...

It is probably no surprise to those who know me that Russia's invasion of Ukraine set me off on a good deal of reading.  Among the onlin...

Yesterday morning I found myself sitting at my dining room table, shoving aside scraps of velvet and silk lining and strips of custom-made b...

  Kenneth Branagh has decided to extend his Poirot franchise, following the commercial success of Murder on the Orient Express, with a mostl...