Dappled Things Magazine

02/07/2025

Our friends at Wiseblood Books are having a sale!

A Firecracker of a Sale: Here Today & Gone on Thursday! 10% every book on our shelves, buy one, two, three, ten! Read all about it in our newsletter & our Substack.

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01/07/2025

This essay from our archives seems particularly timely as news of the University of Tulsa's shameful destruction of the Honor's Program created by Jenn Frey has just been announced:
"This question of education, independent of the nature and grace debate, goes back at least to Plato and Socrates when he dialogues about the process, proposing that it is a system of recollection. He states in the Meno his famous theory of recollection, that the knowledge is already in the mind in potency but that it must be drawn out through dialogue with another."

Nature, grace, and the incarnational reality of education

01/07/2025

At Canongate, it was the music that came to rest in the hearts of students the most. When alumni were polled two years ago, they were asked to rank aspects of their education that they considered to be most memorable and most worth preserving. The highest-ranking answer universally was making and sharing music together.

At Canongate, it was the music that came to rest in the hearts of students the most. When alumni were polled two years ago, they were asked to rank aspects of their education that they considered to be most memorable and most worth preserving. The highest-ranking answer universally was making and sh

27/06/2025

Friday Links Flannery Abroad Conference with Phil Klay; Andrew Callis in Presence Journal ; Steve Knepper is (Somewhat) Against “Selected Poems”; Rod Dreher’s Weird Case for Religion; Down in my heart to stay; George Weigel On Flannery O’Connor’s Centenary; B. H. Fairchild: PoetryLA Series

Flannery Abroad Conference with Phil Klay; Andrew Callis in Presence Journal ; Steve Knepper is (Somewhat) Against “Selected Poems”; Rod Dreher’s Weird Case for Religion; Down in my heart to stay; George Weigel On Flannery O’Connor’s Centenary; B. H. Fairchild: PoetryLA Series

24/06/2025

“Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist” (Matt 11:11 RSV). From our archives, for today's feast day:

The life and work of the Forerunner, especially as presented in the gospel of John, greatly illuminates the poetic character of Christian life—indeed of all life.

24/06/2025

Nature, grace, and the incarnational reality of education

20/06/2025

Friday Links On a Gnat’s Horizon by Brian Brodeur; Joshua Hren on James Joyce; Substack Poets of Note from Poetics with Robert Charboneau; “What is Art, and Why Does It Matter?”; Congrats to Chrism Press!; The Catholic Imagination: How Do We Define it? How Do We Use It?; First Things Poetry Prize

On a Gnat’s Horizon by Brian Brodeur; Joshua Hren on James Joyce; Substack Poets of Note from Poetics with Robert Charboneau; “What is Art, and Why Does It Matter?”; Congrats to Chrism Press!; The Catholic Imagination: How Do We Define it? How Do We Use It?; First Things Poetry Prize

18/06/2025

17/06/2025

Some wholesome content for your timeline! God bless the Missionaries of Charity!

17/06/2025

Evelyn Waugh’s masterclass in using exterior scenery to dramatize matters of the heart.

13/06/2025

Friday Links B.D. McClay on Northanger Abbey; Dana Gioia on Gerard Manley Hopkins; Wilfred M. McClay reviews Arthur Kirsch’s Auden and Christianity; JMW on “Man Is Born to Behold Beauty“; Collegium’s The Art of Friendship

B.D. McClay on Northanger Abbey; Dana Gioia on Gerard Manley Hopkins; Wilfred M. McClay reviews Arthur Kirsch’s Auden and Christianity; JMW on “Man Is Born to Behold Beauty“; Collegium’s The Art of Friendship

12/06/2025

Listen to our friend Shemaiah Gonzalez talk about her new book, Undaunted Joy!

Podcast Episode · AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast · 06/11/2025 · 36m