Dappled Things Magazine

20/12/2024

Friday Links While All the Earth in Darkness Sleeps The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify’s Plot Against Musicians Out of the Vortex The Big Five Publishers Have Killed Literary Fiction Black Elk's Gift of Healing T.S. Eliot and Abraham Lincoln: Christian Humanists

While All the Earth in Darkness Sleeps; The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify’s Plot Against Musicians; Out of the Vortex; The Big Five Publishers Have Killed Literary Fiction; Black Elk's Gift of Healing; T.S. Eliot and Abraham Lincoln: Christian Humanists

19/12/2024

Our yearly fundraising campaign is a crucial part of keeping DT going, but unfortunately, we are behind schedule to raise the $15,000 we need! This one is especially important as we prepare for our 20th anniversary celebration next year. Thank you to those who have given so far, including Arthur Powers, Jeffrey Essmann, Julie Wright, Kathleen Stewart, Christine Somers, Andrew Higgins, Roberta May, Laura Kehoe, Dan Quigley, Michael Kouyoumdjian, Colleen Rudolph, Mark Paalman, Jared and Rhonda Ortiz, Barbara Wanamaker, James Vogel, Anne Marie Scrivener, Kathleen Milligan, Margarita Garcia-Notario, Joseph Wilson, Mary Camille Thomas, Kathryn Cox, and Amy L Cannon-Kulcak, and Anonymous! With your help we have raised $3,195 so far! That means we still have $11,805 to go! Can you help?

The Quarterly of Ideas, Art, and Faith.Featuring Honorable Mentions for J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction and "The Resurrection of the Body" by Laura Hicks Hardy. Get Dappled Things Headlines are passing.Beauty matters.Why spend the day scrolling and never be up to date? Dappled Things is the hub....

19/12/2024

Advent thoughts from Anne Ridler’s poem: “It is good that Christmas comes at the dark dream of the year / That might wish to sleep ever. / For birth is awaking, birth is effort and pain.”

17/12/2024

Another treasure from our archives:

A Solution for the Advent Curmudgeon

17/12/2024

It's never too late to join us for the Advent novena if you haven't already! Here's the day 2 meditation. This is a beautiful way to prepare for Christmas, perfect for doing as a family or with friends.

Reading for December 17.

17/12/2024

A Christian Recognition of Hanukkah

16/12/2024

The Art of the Acted Word

In October I had the honor of moderating a panel at the University of Notre Dame’s truly wonderful Catholic Imagination Conference , which was centered around how to understand the arts and implement them to nourish the soul. As a long time high school drama teacher, my panel was about theater. I ...

13/12/2024

Friday Links The Color of Dust: Beauty Matters with Jason Baxter; Sr. Carino Hodder: Of Dragons and Other Creatures; 30 Years of the Vatican Film List; A Voice from Deep Space; Thomist Poets Reading Series

CATHEDRALS OF SOUND: Behind the Scenes on the Making of Fiat Lux The Color of Dust: Beauty Matters with Jason Baxter; Sr. Carino Hodder: Of Dragons and Other Creatures; 30 Years of the Vatican Film List; A Voice from Deep Space; Thomist Poets Reading Series

12/12/2024

One mom’s examination of the stories we tell our children

12/12/2024

“In a museum in Germany, there is a replica of Vincent Van Gogh’s severed ear. Patrons of the museum whisper into it. Sometimes, I like to imagine what I would whisper.” Link in the comments.

10/12/2024

We Are Starved for Wonder: A Call to Arms. Please donate today that we can continue to bring you beautiful stories and artwork, essays and poems. This year we hope to raise $15,000. Won't you help us?

We’ll be publishing our twentieth anniversary edition next year, so you would think by now we’d have that nailed down and distilled into a pithy “elevator pitch.” Still, I found myself recently thinking about our mission again, and how it shapes our journal.

10/12/2024

“Vincent’s ability to feel sorrow and channel it into something full of light is something I carry with me daily. Vincent taught me that when faced with suffering, we have a choice in what feelings we lean into and what we do with them.”

07/12/2024

06/12/2024

Friday Links Denise Trull on The Inestimable Value of Genuine Praise; Madison Notes Podcast with Julia Yost; Grace Hamman on Sister Penelope in Expectation; Advent Carol Service: St John’s College Cambridge 1981 (George Guest); Dana Gioia on why Words Matter

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04/12/2024

What is Dappled Things for if not to share a powerful experience of wonder with the world? Learn more about our mission and how you can help - link is in the comments.

03/12/2024

The world is starved for wonder: help us feed it!

We’ll be publishing our twentieth anniversary edition next year, so you would think by now we’d have that nailed down and distilled into a pithy “elevator pitch.” Still, I found myself recently thinking about our mission again, and how it shapes our journal.

03/12/2024

From our Dappled Things archives, Karen Ullo on The Anarchy of Advent
https://dappledthings.squarespace.com/deep-down-things/8538/the-anarchy-of-advent?rq=advent

03/12/2024

A profound meditation of the realities of being born via IVF