Chicago singer-songwriter Neal Francis isn’t particularly religious, but the church has had a deep impact on his music. As a child piano prodigy, Francis learned to play the pipe organ at the Catholic church he attended with his family, an experience that helped fuel his budding love of performance—since then, he’s sat in with local […]
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Posted inArts & Culture
The Chicago education of George Saunders
The celebrated short-story writer and recent debut novelist discusses his formative years in and around the city of his birth.
Posted inBlogs
William Shatner wrestles with his soul at 4 AM, and this priest has it on videotape
Rediscovering the Twilight Zone-esque Catholic television series Insight, which ran from 1960 to 1983
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An interview with Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi (part two)
The 75-year-old writer-director talks about Catholicism, movie stars, and memories of Krzysztof Kieslowski.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Know your dildo
Dan on shopping for safe and nontoxic dildos, committing to marriage on a coin toss, and advising employees about their cuckolding ways
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James Tissot’s tragic muse
In the Art Institute’s “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity,” painter James Tissot’s muse stands in sharp focus.
Posted inFilm
One to watch this fall: filmmaker Mary Fishman combats the culture of looking down on nuns
One to watch this fall: filmmaker Mary Fishman combats the culture of looking down on nuns
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Upon this wobbly rock I will build my church
Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti ponders organized religion with We Have a Pope
Posted inCity Life
This isn’t heaven. It’s Wisconsin.
The Virgin Mary once visited, and now so do throngs of the faithful
Posted inNews & Politics
Takes One to Know One
Robert McClory’s Radical Disciple looks at Father Pfleger as not just an activist but a priest.
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Savage Love, July 16, 2009: You can have a boyfriend and Jesus, too.
Look, kiddo, you get one life, one chance at happiness. If it gives you a spiritual semi to fantasize about a God who created you gay but forbids you to act on your emotional and sexual attraction to men, knock your damn self out. But you can have a boyfriend and Jesus, too. You just have to do what people have been doing since the first terrified idiot invented the first religion: improvise.
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Was it something I said?
The John Edwards campaign hired two bloggers — one of them’s local — and caught flak for their bad language.
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Blogging of, by, and for Chicago
Cattle Transit Authority, and what are Zorn and the Pope talking about?
Posted inNews & Politics
The Holy Terror of Saint Sabina’s
Robert McClory’s 1989 profile of Father Michael Pfleger