The Bible is so reverenced in Western civilization that it’s easy to miss all the layers of comedy at work. Indeed, Charles Baudelaire complained, “Holy Books never laugh, to whatever [...]
Let my people By Patrick T. Reardon (1 – NOW) Lucy Richardson, stuck for words, types the Odyssey (Fitzgerald translation) outside fortress Cook County Jail, at a [...]
‘Let My People’ started life in mid-summer, 2023, when I was attending a show of bluegrass-folk music and had the thought of linking two radically unrelated words as the title [...]
John the Baptist sees his cousin Jesus walking toward him and announces, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” He baptizes Jesus and later [...]
Two-thirds of the way through his history of the Democratic political machine in Chicago, Clout City, Dominic A. Pacyga gives a handful of examples of the requests that came to [...]
Old book Patrick T. Reardon One-Cent found an old book covered, like snow, with dust. Inside, fields of color. The sparrow’s courting dance, the hog settling in. No traffic at [...]
Early on in Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, From the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way, Maxim Samson writes, “Every landscape tells a story—the challenge is [...]
The fresco called The Aldobrandini Wedding is eight feet long and three feet high, and it was created by a Roman artist two thousand years ago, early in the first [...]
Middle Testament Patrick T. Reardon One-Cent archived the Middle Testament. He slipstreamed the sequences and Exsultet. He spiritualed Great Lent. He measured on Good Friday the empty tabernacle, doorless. His [...]
Matthew’s account of the three wise men arriving at the stable to worship the baby Jesus is one of the most touching scenes in the Bible and one of the [...]
