Thoughts from Home and Abroad

Reading and recommending murder mysteries written by contemporary Catholic novelists... Notes From Underground: Undercover Detective Fiction ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Hatred can come in black and white or in every colour of the rainbow... Hatred Comes in Many Colours: The Politics of Pride & Prejudice ~ The Imaginative Conservative The featured image is The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya.

The episode on The Catholic Theology Show in which Michael Dauphinais and I discuss C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength has just been released in audio form. The video form will be available in the coming months. Some of the older episodes on the show have already been released in video form on YouTube. Here's [...]

Homer and Virgil are two of the greatest writers of western civilization but who is the greater? Homer versus Virgil ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Please consider joining me and a host of other speakers at this year's Chesterton Conference. The link to find out about the conference is chesterton.org/conference.

An opportunity to watch the two most recently posted episodes of my discussion with Father Fessio and Vivian Dudro on the ways that science and reason point to God... Here is the episode 12 on numinous experiences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYK2sOREHuQ&pp=ygUbZm9ybWVkIGJvb2sgY2x1YiBlcGlzb2RlIDEy. It was one of the best of the series. Here is the episode 13 on conscience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYbc42QXkZc&pp=ygUbZm9ybWVkIGJvb2sgY2x1YiBlcGlzb2RlIDEz. It was [...]

Those who think King Canute was a fool are foolish... A King Among Fools and Flatterers ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Celebrating an unsung priest who sailed into the mystic west... Another Flower of Scotland - Crisis Magazine

Shakespeare teaches Virginia Woolf about feminine faith and fortitude... Shakespeare’s Sisters ~ The Imaginative Conservative The featured image is John Everett Millais' portrait of Portia (1886).

Pondering the permanent things with a great conversationalist... Book Review: Pondering the Permanent Things – Catholic Telegraph (thecatholictelegraph.com)