Marriage is Funny: Comedy and Complementarity in “The Last Man on Earth”
Saturday Night Live alum Will Forte has recently created a new television comedy for FOX called The Last Man on Earth. It’s a slightly odd, offbeat show that takes place in a post-apocalyptic Tucson...
View ArticleSelf Gift in the m.A.A.d City: The TOB Meets the Christian Drama in Kendrick...
[Editor's Note: If you appreciated Jennifer Fulwiler's affection for Tupac Shakur as expressed in her book, Something Other Than God, this is especially for you.] Kendrick Lamar Duckworth’s second...
View Article“Inside Out” and the Ache
Here’s an excerpt from a post over at The Cor Project written by Christopher West’s eldest son, John Paul. If you haven’t seen Inside Out yet, get to it this weekend! Good stories have always helped me...
View ArticleHappy Feast of JPII and New Editor for LAR
Happy feast of St. John Paul II, everyone! I thought today would be a good day to check in after a few months of inactivity and share the big news: I’m stepping down as editor of Love Among the Ruins...
View ArticleOn the Humane Treatment of Zombies
Hello everyone! I would first like to introduce myself as the new editor for Love Among the Ruins, taking over for Kathryn. I am in awe of everything she does and incredibly humbled that she would...
View ArticleVocation in the Service of Beauty
Image courtesy of Pixabay This morning I came across Saint Pope John Paul II’s “Letter to Artists,” an open letter written in 1999 to all artists of the world. An inspirational video summary was...
View ArticlePick Up Your Feet: Understanding Our Bodies as Gift
This past Saturday I was lucky enough to have Nick Davidson speak at an event my college does called Underground—a certain night set aside once a month for an hour talk, an hour of Adoration, and an...
View Article“The Meaning of Life” and Responsible Parenthood
Everyone knows Monty Python. The British comedy troupe’s show, movies, and comedic style have thoroughly permeated culture, and not just popular culture. Indeed, the song “Every Sperm Is Sacred” from...
View ArticleDivine “Mediation” in New York City
Before I knew it, two big kisses embraced both of my cold cheeks. I had barely stuck my hand out to introduce myself before the tall, broad, and slightly greying Italian man standing in front of me...
View ArticleBaptizing the Modern World
[Editor's Note: While not explicitly Theology of the Body-focused, this essay on our response to the modern dilemma is not only a beautiful analysis of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, but really...
View ArticleUse and Shame in “Love Yourself”: How Justin Bieber Teaches Theology of the Body
[Editor's Note: Some will say it is a stretch to extend a Theology of the Body interpretation to an artist who has so obviously fallen prey to the most degraded aspects of pop culture. The author...
View ArticleHow C.S. Lewis Used Aliens to Show Humanity’s Failings
[Editor's Note: This essay is Part 1 of a series on C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy, beginning with Out of the Silent Planet. Look for upcoming analysis of Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, both of which...
View ArticleI’ll Be There for You: How the Power of Marriage Brings about Healing
The classic TV sitcom Friends is iconic for its long run, humor, and relatable characters that made everyone feel they were part of the “gang.” Friends also pushed the envelope, dealing with themes...
View ArticleGrace in the Grotesque: The Mysteries Represented in O’Connor’s “A Temple of...
[Editor’s Note: In her essay “The Church and the Fiction Writer,” Flannery O’Connor addresses the relation between Catholic dogma, the Catholic writer, and the Catholic reader. She reminds the writer...
View ArticleFinding Redemption in the Blackness: Good Friday with Solzhenitsyn,...
[John Paul II intended his first encyclical Redemptor Hominis (Redeemer of man) to be “a great hymn of joy for the fact that man has been redeemed through Christ—redeemed in spirit and in body.” JPII...
View ArticleWhat if You Could Stop the Fall of Man?
[Editor’s Note: This essay is Part 2 of a series on C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy. Perelandra is the second book following Elwin Ransom’s journey which began in Out of the Silent Planet. The essay series...
View ArticleThat Hideous Strength: When Marriage Saved the Universe
[Editor’s Note: This essay is Part 3 of a series on C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy, following Elwin Ransom’s journey through Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra. Check the archives to access the...
View ArticleBroken Hallelujahs
Beginning with a lover’s wish to woo his beloved with the music that the biblical King David played to please the Lord, the song “Hallelujah” is a testament to the existence of a natural yearning to...
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