Joe Hoover ruminates on reverence, silence and ritual as they play out at daily Mass and in his Bikram Yoga studio.
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Mementoes
Jay Hooks breaks open his bank of great tunes (this one from the band Hem) to bring us a reflection on God and memory.
Dispatches from ‘Told You So’: Act I
Diabetes and conversion, the Paula Deen story. Or: mmm… doughnut burgers.
David Foster Wallace and the Two Standards
Admittedly aging hipster Jake Martin on the great DFW and the Two Standards.
Seven Times Seventy Watch
Tim O’Brien shines a light on a recent disruption of the NY Symphony (Patron X, anyone?) while not forgetting forgiveness.
Prayers in the Abbey?
Everyone in America apparently loves 19th century Britain… and snark. Luckily, Our Lady is at work.
The Trinity & Pop-music
A capella pop music and the Trinity – another near heresy by Eric Sundrup.
Cookie the New Translation
What do cookies, Commonweal, irony (the Alanis Morisette kind), and the New Roman Missal have in common?
Varieties of Religious Experience
What, you doubted that it was possible to include Flannery, Dylan, Sedgwick, Charles Taylor, World Youth Day, Lucinda and the Isenheim Altarpiece in the same article? Well then you’ve never heard of our boy Jim Keane.
Words, Words, Words: Our Shabby Equipment (Part 1)
In the first of this two-part series Jeff Johnson graces us with a history of the battle over what constitutes poetry in the English language, and shows us how, with the implementation of the New Roman Missal, our Church has taken a stand in this still-hot debate.