Hannah M LangdonDo you Remember it All Too Well? What a Priest and Artist could Teach Pop Singers about NostalgiaIn their dialogue “The Meaning of Birth” Fr. Guissani and Giovanni Testori say “man does not kill himself from absence; he kills himself…4 min read·Feb 17, 2024----
Hannah M LangdonRaiding the ArticulateThoughts on NeuraLink, language, and T.S Eliot6 min read·Feb 10, 2024----
Hannah M LangdonThey’re Killing the Mockingbirds. What Are We Doing About It?“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they…3 min read·Apr 1, 2023----
Hannah M LangdonWhen the Church is “too fleshy” for an AdultererGraham Greene’s “The End of the Affair”4 min read·Feb 24, 2023----
Hannah M LangdonThe Dishonesty of Despair: Reflections on “The Sunset Limited”I recently watched the HBO version of Cormac McCarthy’s play The Sunset Limited. Similar to Twelve Angry Men or Lifespan of a Fact,the play…5 min read·Jan 19, 2023----
Hannah M LangdonWhy Real Adults Wonder if There are Sheep on AsteroidsI first read The Little Prince at the end of high school and was unmoved, although I think pronounced it “charming.” At eighteen I was busy…3 min read·Sep 17, 2022----
Hannah M LangdonCan I laugh a lot and still be holy? Some Thoughts on St. Edith Stein’s “The Science of the Cross”“In Port William, more than anyplace else I had been, this religion that scorned the beauty and goodness of this world was a puzzle to me…5 min read·Aug 27, 2022--1--1
Hannah M LangdonHow does the “boy” grow up in a pressure machine?Thoughts on The Killer’s latest so3 min read·Aug 20, 2022----
Hannah M LangdonChrist Reenters the Desert in Plutenko’s PaintingThe closest place to a desert I remember visiting is Jockey’s Ridge in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. If you stand in the middle…3 min read·Aug 15, 2022----
Hannah M LangdonYou’re [Probably] Living LiturgicallyHumans fall naturally into ritual. Morning coffee. Weekly happy hour. “Self-care days.” Christmas. New Year’s. We are created in and bound…3 min read·Aug 13, 2022----
