Poem: The hill
The Hill Patrick T. Reardon Reign and tremble, the earth moves to the sound of the terrible name. Judgment is given, righteous answers to unasked questions on [...]
Book review: “Why Study the Past? The Quest for the Historical Church” by Rowan Williams
The past is a strange, yet familiar place, and history isn’t a cudgel with which to pound opponents into submission. That’s true of any history. And it’s especially important when [...]
Book review: “Anima Rising” by Christopher Moore
It’s not really a surprise that Sigmund Freud would get mad at Carl Jung after what Geoff did to the rug in Freud’s office while Jung was seeing a client [...]
Poem: A world of trouble
A world of trouble Patrick T. Reardon “You are also asking me questions and I hear you, I answer that I cannot answer, you must find out [...]
Book review: “Gorky Park” by Martin Cruz Smith
Martin Cruz Smith’s 1981 bestseller Gorky Park is a baroque murder mystery with international reverberations, gruesome details upon gruesome details, betrayals and betrayals, lust and love, weasel-like mammals and weasel-like [...]
Book review: “Sin: The Art of Transgression” by Joost Jousta
We live in an age that, pretty much, denies sin, particularly sin as it was viewed a century ago, a violation of God‘s law, especially dealing with sex. Still, the [...]
Poem: Let in
Let in Patrick T. Reardon Let Emmanuel in the door, like Elijah, like a cold wind, like the gray mouse seeking warmth, the shoo-fly in random flight, a [...]
Book review: “The Switch” by Elmore Leonard
At the heart of most crime novels are bad guys who are trying to victimize good guys. But not when Elmore Leonard is the writer. The bad guys — the [...]
Poem: Lament
Lament By Patrick T. Reardon Take your fingers and trace the sculpture skin shards, broken bottles embedded in wall cement top. Thieve over and in for treasure: my [...]
Book review: “Simone in Pieces” by Janet Burroway
Simone Lerrante is seventy-years-old, and, as she has all her life, she is ruminating at this moment in the year 2000 as she looks at the panes of the large [...]