A brief note – September 2025 in Dailies & Sundays
[about this site and its readers]
Just a quick post-birthday celebration note1 looking back at the last month or so since I put out a special appeal for paid subscriptions. During this time I’ve published:
a theological longread on Christianity as an interpretation of history
context on the “enigmatic” Trump message in Epstein’s birthday book
my homily for the Exaltation of the Holy Cross with an icky but, I hope, memorable and applicable anecdote about cockroaches
commentary on Shakespeare-themed cartoons
context from Charlie Kirk quotations on Cardinal Dolan’s appalling encomium of Kirk as a “modern-day St. Paul”
an exploration of a little-discussed aspect of the process of falling asleep
more Shakespeare—a longread inquiry into the influence of the Bible (or Bible translations) on Shakespeare, and vice versa
an examination of the curious proliferation of Jesus entertainment
This is a decent cross-section of the writing I try to do here at Dailies & Sundays.2 The site’s blurb is “A Catholic deacon, film critic, cartooning enthusiast, and father of 7 writes too much about everything that interests him”—and that’s what I’m trying to do!
I hope those of you who have graciously stepped up (a gratifying number of you!) and responded to my appeal for paid subscriptions, especially in the year ahead, feel well thanked, both directly (I have tried to reach out to as many of you as I could and thank you personally) and indirectly in the quality and quantity of the output I’ve been running. I am also truly grateful to everyone who is reading for free.
I may not always be able to write as much as I have been doing, but I will continue to try to do my best. At the end of the day, I do this because I feel like I have to; the things I write are things that, for me, need writing about. I hope you’re enjoying at least some of it as much as I am.
Many readers will not be surprised that
and I went out for The Transcendent Sushi. (Read more about the theology of sushi and why sushi is so amazing.)
In fact, in these posts I’ve added to nearly all of my top-level tags: Homilies; Catholic thoughts; God thoughts; Comics; Movies; Language; Public square; and Curious (a new tag tying together some orphan posts!). Only SDG art has been neglected—but I’ve got something coming pretty soon!
So you think the God and chocolate bogus quote is appropriately attributed to St. Teresa because she’s a WOMAN??? I don’t know, Steven, I just don’t know.