The Joy of Indie Catholic Radio
Friends, Romans, Countrymen...Indie Catholic Radio's web presence began on Gaudium Dei (apart from its humble home on the WCUA website). In the past, by being a mere tab and page at the top of this...
View ArticleSept. 15th, 2013 - Last Bison, Middle East, and Pope Francis
Hello everyone! Two hours before showtime isn't last-minute at all, but what were you expecting from college radio? It's not like we aren't professionals (and it's not like we found ourselves up at 1AM...
View ArticleArcade Fire Unintentionally Comments on Catholic Media
What is real communication? The question has ceased to be asked in the postmodern era. Instead, we merely act and participate in the various forms of media that surround us and bind us, usually to our...
View ArticleSeptember 29th, 2013 - Infinite Arms (of Band of Horses), Pope Francis and...
Writing this post less than an hour before I'm supposed to go on air - I know, I know, I'm rushing it. No Kermit to celebrate with you guys for today! Instead, I fall to a new low to convince you of...
View ArticleWhat Do I Deserve?
(A whole bunch of pageviews from writing this?)That above was a joke. That actually was a whole laugh on my whole past as a supposedly "Catholic" blogger. Seriously, what do I deserve? Thinking aloud...
View ArticleBeing Force-Fed the Sinful Fruit
I've been grappling with anxiety, as my last returning post revealed. It isn't just the two essays that must be completed before Thanksgiving break next week, but it is something else. I may just have...
View ArticleDealing with Psychological Determinism
Last night's post caused me to fall into a bit of a psychological determinism. While the picture I painted is accurate, and the concerns genuine, it is only half the story, and a dreary one at that....
View ArticleThe Hidden Potency of the News Feed
While the overabundance of information that I whined over a few days ago may explain why we have lost our innocence, it does not explain, as I experience as a 20-year old man, the modern dilemma of...
View ArticleIndie Catholic Radio: Where Heaven and Music Meet
Creation is God's gift of Himself to us. And by this, I do not just mean His Creation, but the ability to create as He does. C.S. Lewis's faith (which he aptly calls by the name of "Joy" in his book...
View ArticleReview: ETWN's Nightly News (From The Deacon's Bench)
I interned at a local Catholic television station this past summer, so Catholic television has become a new interest of mine. Of course, that isn't when I'm interested in Catholic radio or Catholic...
View ArticleDreaming of Rome: A Brother's Blog on the Eternal City
The title of such a post would seem to evoke, at first, some kind of reflective, deeply philosophical longing of the glories of Mother Church. However, that isn't the case. In my gradual return to the...
View ArticleTo Hell and Back
We get thrown into the throes of mystery, the actual mystery that is reality, and we panic. We run scared, we look to simply just latch on to our old selves. Growing into maturity (whatever maturity...
View ArticleNext Semester's Indie Catholic Radio Albums
Hey boys and girls!Next semester's Indie Catholic Radio will be focusing deeper on the music we play rather than commentary on the Catholic Church. Though we love to talk about Church news, this can't...
View ArticleOn Maturity and Imagination
This morning, getting onto the bus to take me back to DC, I read this article by Joe Jonas discussing an honest look at his life. I found it posted by a friend on Facebook. I took an interest to the...
View ArticleDonald O'Connor on Joyful Theology
I told my girlfriend a little while ago about how I felt that Donald O'Connor, singing the song "Make 'Em Laugh" does far better theology than all of the morose Catholic bloggers the world has seen.To...
View ArticleThe First End-of-Year Mashup for 2013 is here...
...and it makes me confused, since I seriously wasn't dancing to a bass-beat 24/7. Good going, Buzzfeed.I mean, you managed to backbeat Passenger. I don't think that's right. And Mumford? Anywhere?...
View ArticleTalking and Writing Less
Aside from the humorous title, more meta-discussion is basically all I feel about writing right now. It either means that I am stuck or that I am seriously moving in a positive and original direction...
View Article"7 o'clock News/Silent Night" - Beauty and Suffering this Christmas
At the beginning of last summer, I was listening to Simon and Garfunkel's "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme" album. The album closed with one of the most unique and beautiful commentaries on life I...
View ArticleMerry Christmas, Sufjan Stevens Style.
Happy Merry Merry to you all! As the Advent awaiting for Christ comes to a close, we are glad to be "home for Christmas," both in our homes with friends and family as well as in our spiritual lives...
View ArticleThe Relationship between Fortitude and Belief
Fortitude is the persistance in an act or way of thinking despite concrete obstacles, and belief is the acceptance as fact principles or ideas which are not guaranteed or verified by concrete evidence....
View ArticleThe Harmonium Project
I'll get right to it - I wish the Harmonium Project was my idea. It would be perfect. Indie Catholic Radio is about connecting the elemets of music, especially Indie Rock, to eternal aspects of beauty....
View ArticleFighting our Sin: The Lonely Forest, "Arrows"
Scarred by original sin, we struggle always against the addiction of sin that has been within us since Genesis. In fighting sin throughout our lives, in whatever context we see good and evil within, we...
View ArticleSimple Joy of Love - Cloud Cult's "Love"
Cloud Cult's newest album, "Love," is a motivational creation meant to inspire a mental, emotional, and spiritual investigation into what Love itselt means in our own hearts, through careful...
View ArticleThank You, God
It's been adventurous to be a young American Catholic man trying to learn what adulthood is all about. I'm 20, and my initial and ultimate conclusion is that adulthood is merely childhood dressed in...
View ArticleInebriated by Thought on a 21st Birthday (Or, how the Blogger Grew Up)
So its my 21st birthday. Most people probably associate this day in their lives with some form of alcohol. And that's fine, your cup of tea (or something else) is fine. For me, the hardest drink in my...
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