Make a Joyful Noise Make a joyful noise you–sons of silence the kind of noise that can only rise up from the sound of Nothing the Quiet of Everything the Quiet of the All the sound of God the Sacred Breath of The One who sits inside our secret room in the deepest recess ofContinue reading “Make A Joyful Noise (a poem)”
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Mark Saint Paul is a Portuguese-American musician, writer, folk artist, and Catholic lay-monk who grew up in the Culto do Divino Espirito Santo, a Catholic lay order established in the 15th century by Franciscan spiritualists. He has written about music, culture, anarchism and spirituality for the San Francisco Weekly, Sacred Fire Magazine, The Vigilance, Sling Shot, and Indy Bay. He currently lives in the Northern Arizona mountains with his family and is forever grateful for the grace of God.
The Art of Faith: How the Church lost the Artists and why She needs them back.
How did we go from Dante and Flannery O’Conner, from Dostoyevsky and Da Vinci, to this barren, desolate landscape of Christian art? How did we get from Bach and Handel, from early twentieth century American Gospel music, to the travesty of modern Christian country-rock and the cringe inducing mediocrity of post-conciliar Catholic liturgical music? WhereContinue reading “The Art of Faith: How the Church lost the Artists and why She needs them back.”
Reflections on a Neo-Monastic Home
Reading Thomas Moore’s Meditations: On the Monk Who Dwells in Daily Life, I am compelled to explore my own meditations on the subject and to put forth my reflections on a Neo-Monastic Movement—of sorts—within the Church and, as a broader spiritual movement, outside of the Church. The subject of Moore’s meditations is easily discerned byContinue reading “Reflections on a Neo-Monastic Home”
The Courage To Read
Paul Tillich’s The Courage To Be was first published in 1952, based on a series of lectures he gave at Yale University that same year. Reading Tillich’s masterful treatise on courage in the “age of anxiety” in the midst of Lent in the year 2023, with war raging in Eastern Europe and chemical disaster trainContinue reading “The Courage To Read”
You Are Welcomed at The Christian Drifter…
Welcome to The Christian Drifter, a newsletter of sorts, where we will be exploring the brightest lights in Christian thought of the last two thousand or so years, as well as putting in our own two cents in the form of theological speculations, radical proposals for a new spiritual counter-culture, book reviews, essays and opinionContinue reading “You Are Welcomed at The Christian Drifter…”
The Christian Drifter 