A Common Place Blog

'From the time these things were first revealed I had often wanted to know what was our Lord's meaning. It was more than fifthteen y...

'When we talk about the problem of the art of monstrous men, we are really talking about a larger problem - the problem of human love. T...

'...consuming a piece of art is two biographies meeting: the biography of the artist, which might disrupt the consuming of the art; and ...

'...beauty is not the product of communities. It creates communities. Communities of desire, if you wish.' Dave Hickey in Claire Ded...

'We don't make decisions about beauty. Beauty happens to us.' Claire Dederer, Monsters , p.244.

'Even in the midst of my righteous indignation when I bitch about Woody and Soon-Yi, I know that on some level, I'm not an entirely ...

'...the way of renunciation is not alien to God. In Jesus, God has been there ahead of us...' Gilbert Meilaender, Thy Will Be Done ,...

'The historian Herbert Butterfield is supposed to have said that if we take the animosity present in an average church choir and give th...

'Radically and basically all sin is simply ingratitude.' Karl Barth in Gilbert Meilaender, Thy Will Be Done, p.56

'...a "crisis" in sexual ethics is never simply that; it is a crisis in our understanding of what it means to be a person. Are...