In my parish at the end of every Mass, we recite thePrayer of St. Michaelthe archangel, and today we have one of the classic references to thischief messenger(the meaning of the world “archangel”). Angels always deliver messages from God, the very reason they exist. And today this a...
a movement sweeping as a lasso and precise as an arrow, since her painting contains at the moment something quite other than itself, gathers up the grazed knees of a five-year-old girl, the danger, an island in the far reaches of the Pacific, the sound of ...
there is a growing need to discuss what media systems today are, how they can be analyzed, interpreted and compared. At the Moscow Readings 2024 conference, we welcome a discussion about systemic stability of journalism as a whole and in regard to cross-country comparisons. We encourage scholars...
To quote from Chung’s essay again, Friday Night Lights is “an unflinching portrait of contemporary America that is not at all clever or ironic; that is both earnest and real; that dares you to care, and to embrace the notion that heart and personal morality are at the center of everyt...
person in the urn, or the death of his brother all those years ago, or why Erlendur was the way he was, and why Elías was stabbed to death. Life was a random mass of unforeseeable coincidences that governed men’s fates like a storm that strikes without warning, causing injury and ...