Joshua Whitfield
May 30, 2019
Truth is a writer’s first responsibility. To conquer the lie, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said.
May 22, 2019
Maggie Whitfield interviews Melanie Newman of the Salem Red Sox…
April 22, 2019
It is hard to describe the loss of Notre Dame. When the poet Rainer Maria Rilke lived in Paris, each evening on his way home, he stopped as he crossed the Siene on the Île de la Cité to watch the sun set over Notre Dame. The darkening ancient towers silent against the new, awakening, electric […]
March 24, 2024
I can’t help but to keep coming back to what Saint Paul said to the Corinthians, what he wrote to them.
March 3, 2024
“[T]he cathedral provokes a contemptuous world.”[1] That’s a line from a little poem by Rilke; it’s something Rodin had said. Rilke, the poet, for a time worked for Rodin, the sculptor, until they had a falling out as artists often do.
February 18, 2024
For Saint Augustine, that great doctor of the Church and light of theology and civilization, his journey to the faith, his conversion to Christianity, his path to baptism was very painful.
January 28, 2024
Lacking much rhetorical invention this week, I thought I’d pull back the curtain in his homily and make it more of a “how-to,” or a homily about a homily or something like that. That is, I thought it interesting (at least for me) to share with you how I go about thinking up and writing a […]
December 23, 2023
Advent, as we live it out today, does I think suffer from mixed messaging.
