A pilgrimage to Flannery O’Connor's Georgia home
You’ll find her along the fence line of Memory Hill Cemetery, to the left. The grave sits in a family plot. There are Treanors and Clines—relations of her mother’s—and ...
Dark, noisy and nearly forgotten, a 20-something makes a case for reviving Tenebrae
It is the great peculiarity of the Church of Rome, that it presents to its worshipers an extraordinary variety of services, each of which has a special significance and ...
Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood stuns and confounds
Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood literally starts off with a thud. Only a few minutes into the film, set in late 19th and early 20th century ...
Justin Brandon has been weighing his options. The 25-year-old San Francisco resident recently applied to Stanford's highly competitive MBA program, but even if admitted, he isn't sure he wants ...
Most people respond to the approach of Christmas with a happy blizzard of activity. They lick stamps and fix them to final flurries of Christmas cards. They bake. They ...
Redford's Lions for Lambs paints 20-somethings with broad strokes
"Rome is burning, son!" So says Professor Stephen Malley (Robert Redford) to a disaffected student named Todd in Redford's new film, Lions for Lambs. It's an alarming ...
Saints are most commonly seen in two dimensions, as they appear in devotional artwork. Frozen in stained glass or canvas, they serenely eye the heavens as their hands ...
Robert Ellsberg had some explaining to do.When his book All Saints appeared in 1997, readers celebrated its fresh take on the lives of "365 saints, prophets and witnesses for ...
