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Sarah Reardon is quietly doing really beautiful work, writing about faith, motherhood, literature etc. You can now keep up with her work in one place.

Home Songs is now available. Many thanks to Wipf and Stock Publishers for publishing, and to those who have read and supported my work along the way. My hope with this chapbook is to explore the beauty and spiritual significance of "home" as a concept and place. wipfandstock.com/9798385245215/…

Philip Bunn reflects on the legacy of Alasdair MacIntyre: "Dependent Rational Animals offers both a satisfying philosophical exclamation point and a sorely needed ethical and political vision appropriate for the struggles of our own day." frontporchrepublic.com/2025/06/reflec…

In which I recommend essays by Clare Morell, Nathan Beacom, Amy Weiss-Meyer, Kevin Roose, Bianca Bosker, Rachel Lu, and others.

We've now moved beyond insanity to mass psychosis. Anyone still shelling out "tuition" money to one of these institutions deserves their fate.

Live in the Seattle Area? Work in tech? Catholic? Join us on July 15th: lu.ma/7rbx86tr (of course this is open to absolutely anyone, but we're particularly calling out the tech community).

A rare instance when the reality surpassed the hype.

Some thoughts on what we call “nature”

5 seats are still available at our Plough Young Writers Weekend – submit your application today! A limited-attendance gathering of university-age students interested in writing, publishing, and Christian community. plough.com/en/events/2025…

Today's piece gives a foretaste of Aaron Poochigian's forthcoming book "Four Walks in Central Park, A Poetic Guide to the Park." frontporchrepublic.com/2025/06/holden…

My piece about the great Holden Caulfield in Central Park is out Front Porch Republic : frontporchrepublic.com/2025/06/holden… It's an excerpt from my forthcoming "Four Walks in Central Park."

The maturation of Mere Orthodoxy over the past few years is--to my mind--a remarkable and very encouraging development.

Teddy Macker: The following day, Christmas morning, soldiers of opposing armies—holding white flags or their hands up—entered the “no man’s land” between the barbed wire between the lines. They, for the first time, saw each other’s faces. frontporchrepublic.com/2025/06/brethr…

Hot off the press and shipping next week.

Pumped

My twelfth/dozenth book review, this one of Rod Dreher's book Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular World (link below). Thanks to Jeffrey Bilbro and Front Porch Republic for publishing.

In which I recommend essays by Nathan Beacom, Grace Olmstead, Tyler Austin Harper, Marko Jukic, Evelyn Quartz, Lauren Feiner, Emmet Penney, and others.

In the last 12 months Slant Books has lost 3 submissions because the MSS submitted won major national literary prizes. So I guess that means we're doing something right....