Here is Part Four of my podcast lecture series based on my book, Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know.

For many years I’ve been teaching online classes for Homeschool Connections, seeing it grow from modest beginnings into the veritable tour de force that it has become. And now Homeschool Connections has achieved the highest award possible. Read more here.

Here are some musings on life, death, and drama.

Where did priests hide in days of anti-Catholic terror? This is one of the things I discuss in my latest essay for the National Catholic Register.

In part three of my podcast series, based on my newest book Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know, I discuss the importance of storytelling in the Gospel and how it relates to the importance of fictional narratives in any healthy culture.

Well, should we?

Here’s my tribute to the poet, Francis Thompson, with a little Belloc and Chesterton thrown in for good measure.

This is part two of my podcast series on my new book, Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know.

Chesterton proposes a toast to the art of happy drinking.