Another post-Barthian Thomist Midwesterner growing weary of irony and exhausted by scrupulosity. More interested than ever in advertising and commending every fantasticity strewn throughout the cosmos by the One who does all things well. Can you dig it?
About Ian Olson
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Home Is Where the Hurt Is
The holiday season means many things, all of them swirling together into an unstable compound of images and memories that makes me wistful and sad and ebullient in confusing, overlapping intervals. For me, the approach of winter always brings to mind the collision of happy Christmases from my childhood (in which I was no doubt […]
Apocalypse Now! (and Always and Forever)
Waiting is never particularly easy, but in 2020 it seems especially excruciating. Advent is always hard, too, at least conceptually: the countdown to Christmas crackles with excitement, but liturgically we are all confronted with the darkness of the world and of ourselves. Advent in 2020, though, almost feels like overkill. A concentrated dose of death, […]
The Only Hope is through Horror: The Only Good Indians and the Cycles We Long to Escape
Stephen Graham Jones’ latest novel The Only Good Indians is a story of memory, guilt, and vengeance, and it is triggering in the most spiritually illuminating way. I come to it as a Native American and read in it of paranormal horror which arises out of and highlights the mundane horror which permeates contemporary native […]
The Election is Wonderfully Good News
I don’t know if you heard, but there was an election this year. That might or might not have been good news. But there’s another election that’s even better news — the best news — and it has nothing to do with paper ballots, hanging chads, exit polling, majority rule, or the Reformed dudebros you’re […]
The Personal Is Apocalyptic: When Your World Unravels
On Brian Evenson’s Song for the Unraveling of the World
The Word of God and the Story of Our World: Robert Jenson’s The Triune Story
“Scripture’s Self, the Narrative Content of Its Promises, is Jesus Christ”
Farewell to Summer: Remembering (But Not Cherishing) Our Summer in Abaddon
The Sounds of Summer Have Been Protests and Ennui, but Don’t Stop Listening.
The Dark Radiance of Discordance Axis’ The Inalienable Dreamless Twenty Years Later
Twenty Years Old this Month, this Record Revolutionized Grindcore
Our Unwelcome Infinite Summer: David Foster Wallace and Martin Luther on Desire and Discontent
“The burning doesn’t go away? … What fire dies when you feed it?”
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