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The free newsletter of The Lamp, a print Catholic journal of literature, science, the fine arts, etc.
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Revised by Evidence (opens the original)
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Pride is supposed to be the worst of them, you know. In the classical ordering of the seven deadly sins, pride occupies the top spot, not merely one of the gang but the ringleader, the sin from which all others flow. Saint Thomas Aquinas thought pride was the root of sin itself, the gravitational center around which every other moral failure orbits; pride is the ur-transgression that caused Lucifer to fall from Heaven and from which no subsequent angel or human has been fully safe. Indeed, a rem
The Seven Deadly Sins (opens the original)
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Over the Borderline (opens the original)
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Writers have bad readers; in private life, these critics are called psychiatrists. The catastrophe suffered by the lunatic is unlike that visited on any other patient. While the cardiologist, the oncologist, the gastroenterologist may be imperious and arrogant, refusing to listen to the poor ignorant civilian who has nothing at all to contribute to her own case, the psychiatrist does nothing but listen. He listens for hours, days, weeks, years as the patient unfurls her life before him: her perc
The Lamp Christmas Ghost Story Contest (opens the original)
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For the sixth year in a row, The Lamp is sponsoring a Christmas ghost story competition in the spirit of Dickens and M. R. James. When we say “in the spirit of,” we do not have in mind wan pseudo-Edwardian pastiches of James and others; we mean stories that “succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours,” stories with contemporary or near-contemporary settings that achieve effects
Everything Was Glorious, Everything Was Shabby (opens the original)
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“Total Eclipse of the Heart” was one of the first pop songs I ever loved, but the first time I heard it, it was in Estonian. (Don’t ask.) Later, I heard a parody in which somebody sang a narration of the events of the song’s very silly, very eighties music video. That was when I realized that the Estonian song I vaguely remembered had some kind of larger existence. And so it was that I finally listened to the version that everybody knows, the one sung by Bonnie Tyler.I don’t mind saying that eve
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