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Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:27:18 -0500

I’m excited about CRSTL - Community Radio STL - starting 1 February 2026 at noon.

Press Release & Program Schedule

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:18:35 -0500

Stephen Colbert addresses the murder of Alex Pretti by CBP agents.

The mixture of sincerity, satire, humor, and honor is part of the antidote to our fascistic federal administration.

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:11:29 -0500

Watched: The Thursday Murder Club 🍿

Year in books for 2025

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:43:33 -0500

Here are the books I finished reading in 2025.

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:54:56 -0500

Finished reading: Lourdes Diary by James Martin 📚

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:12:22 -0500

Finished reading: Furious Minds by Laura K. Field 📚

Consider this book required reading for those interested in the extreme political theories that underlie the MAGA movement.

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:54:05 -0500

Finished reading: Steve Martin Writes the Written Word by Steve Martin 📚

Steve Martin is a national treasure. I hope to – one day – shake his hand.

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 23:33:05 -0500

Finished reading: Ambushed! by Gail Jarrow 📚

A nice YA companion to Death By Lightning, especially when no copies of Destiny of the Republic are available on Libby.

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:40:58 -0500

Finished reading: Opus by Gareth Gore 📚

The spiritual abuse chronicled in this book is just evil; including of course the alleged human trafficking.

Placing power & money over people is always wrong. Hopefully the church will be given the grace to overcome & correct these abuses.

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:55:20 -0500

Finished reading: The Bright Ages by Matthew Gabriele & David M. Perry 📚

A great primer on the dark ages (get it?). It is very accessible and has a great “Further Reading” section.

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 14:42:08 -0500

Finished reading: The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford 📚

A good read about grave matters.

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:37:28 -0500

Finished reading: The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s by Paul Elie 📚

I was a kid in the 1980s & this book connected some important dots for me. I now better understand the groundwork for today’s culture wars and the crypto-religious nature of key artists & musicians.

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:25:02 -0500

Finished reading: The AI Con by Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna 📚

The AI Con is grounded in reality and presented with a healthy sense of humor.

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:58:34 -0500

Finished reading: What Tech Calls Thinking by Adrian Daub 📚

Wilco!

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 21:35:06 -0500

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 23:32:00 -0500

Finished reading: Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco 📚

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:37:31 -0500

Finished reading: Spent by Alison Bechdel 📚

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:12:41 -0500

Finished reading: Cancer in Layman’s Terms by Mark Langston Doyle 📚

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:17:20 -0500

Finished reading: Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler 📚

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 15:07:32 -0500

Via @tomtomorrow.bsky.social

Mon, 26 May 2025 12:41:26 -0500

I’ve reached peak fatherhood.

Sat, 10 May 2025 16:26:20 -0500

Where There’s Smoke, There’s Friar

Habemus papam!

As it happened, I was sitting at a cafe in the city of Assisi when Cardinal Robert Prevost was announced as the 267th Bishop of Rome.

I’m still digesting the circumstances: an American Pope, graduate of Chicago’s Catholic Theological Union, a White Sox fan!

I love that he chose the name Leo XIV. As he remarked to the College of Cardinals, the name indicates a focus I believe is super important:

Sensing myself called to continue in this same path, I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labour. Source: vatican.va

I will continue to pray for the new Pope. In order to live into his new role, he will need God’s grace and the collaboration of the faithful and all people of good will.

Thu, 01 May 2025 10:58:22 -0500

The kerning on the pope’s tomb is a travesty

It really is quietly beautiful. But atop that marble is a tomb inscribed with the name “Franciscus.” Or what—due to terrible spacing between letters, known as kerning—reads something more like “F R A NCIS VS.”

This is a grave matter.

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:28:12 -0500

John Oliver on RFK

Yesterday’s episode of Last Week Tonight is worth watching if you’re interested in public health or are looking for a reason to quarantine yourself for the next four years.

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:02:57 -0500

Habemus Papam

Per recent news, I was reminded of this gem of a film: the winner of Best Film at the 2011 Italian Golden Globes.

A movie that imagines an answer to the question: What if the Cardinal elected by the conclave is worried he’s not up to the job?