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Mount Wonder – a novel inspired by IHP

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Dec 2022
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My dad wrote a novel called Mount Wonder. It’s a romance based on his personal experiences in the Integrated Humanities Program (IHP) at KU in the 70’s. Given how influential that program has been for American Catholicism and with all of the issues in academia today, and because it’s a totally wild adventure, you’ll enjoy […]

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Top 10 Catholic Paintings

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Mar 2016
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Limiting this list only to sacred art paintings, I’ve come up with a list of the top ten most famous, influential, historical, beautiful, and edifying Catholic paintings. The list is limited to paintings with explicitly religious themes painted by artists for a Catholic audience. In the end it was difficult to narrow it down to a top 10, […]

Category: Aesthetics, Art, Artist, Arts of the Beautiful, Baroque Art, beauty, Catholic community, Catholic Thing, Catholics, Classics, Culture, faith, Fine Art, God and stuff, golden ratio, Good Artists Borrow Great Artists Steal, Google Trends, Gothic Architecture, integritas, It Is What It Is, Italy, Jesus, Master Artist, Oil Painting, Painting, Religion, Religious Art, Rome, Rome Sick, Sacred Art, Theology, William Bougeureau  One Comment

Last Blog Post as an Atheist

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Jun 2012
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Here’s something edifying, entertaining, and enlightening. It’s a blog post by an atheist blogger who finally converted.  Her writing is witty and intellectual (to fill our pedantry quota). https://www.patheos.com/blogs/unequallyyoked/2012/06/this-is-my-last-post-for-the-patheos-atheist-portal.html Enjoy, PB    

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