Archive - keep your mind in hell and despair not

wearable and portable relics in the late antique west

on belief and skepticism in the first centuries of relic veneration

Oct 14 •

hurricane season

on leaving the country and loving my fate

Oct 11 •

August 2024

on literary scenes, modernism, nocturnal quests (and some perfume recs)

Aug 30 •

July 2024

festa di santa rosalia

festal Palermo and an odyssey from Bari to Byron's Metaxata

Jul 31 •

excavated poetics

on sacramental ontology, history, David Jones, John Cale, Joseph Ratzinger, Christopher Dawson and Sinead O'Connor

Jul 6 •

May 2024

on pilgrimage, prayer and spiritual warfare

May 17 •

April 2024

Simone Weil's Reformation

Published on Mars Review of Books • Apr 23

leaving oxford; venice part iii; walking

Apr 20 •

after easter: part ii

Venice and the difficulty of the resurrected Christ

Apr 13 •

paris and venice by train, misc recs: part I

This is the first part of three… what I planned as an escape and declaration of personal freedom turned into involuntary commitment in a psychiatric…

Apr 12 •

March 2024

the new pelagianism

on therapy, grace and responsibility

Mar 24 •

February 2024

on Simone Weil, milk and God

Feb 18 •

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