All Things SDG is now SDG’s Dailies & Sundays!

[a re-introduction]

(this logo is very much a work in progress, and subject to change as time permits me to work on it)

Our story so far: One year on, say goodbye to All Things SDG…

Hi. I’m Steven D. Greydanus. If you’re reading this, maybe you liked something I once wrote about God, movies, comics, politics, language, or some other topic. Or maybe you subscribed by accident while signing up for someone else’s Substack! Either way, I’m glad you’re here.

If you’ve signed up for a free or paid subscription to All Things SDG (as this site has been called until now), you may not be into every one of the topics I address here, but perhaps you’ve stuck around until now for the topics you do care about—or you just might not have gotten around to unsubscribing yet. (Some of you reading this may take this opportunity to unsubscribe. Thanks for reading for a while! Go in peace.)

I know my readers include, for example, Christians who don’t care for my writing about cartooning, nonreligious movie fans who skip my homilies, people who just like my writing for whatever reason, etc. Which is great! I’ve always intentionally sought to write for a diverse audience. Not necessarily the widest possible audience—my authorial voice tends to be (not unlike my voice in real life) on the bookish side, which is off-putting to some readers (and to some people in real life, believe me). But I’ve never been interested in addressing a homogenous group of people more or less like myself!

If you’re still here, and planning to stick around: Thank you! Just by following or subscribing and by reading, you make a difference. I mean it. If only a handful of people were reading, I would still write—but not as much, or at the lengths I do. I couldn’t justify taking time away from other things. Just by being out there, you help make this place what it is.

If you occasionally or regularly like, comment, restack, or share in some other way, so much the better! Active readers make all the difference. Thank you, thank you, thank you! And if you’re one of my paid subscribers: My friends, you are genuinely helping to keep the lights on, metaphorically and literally. If you are fewer in number than I need, you are greater in number than I expected, and the money adds up and really does help.

SDG’s Dailies & Sundays: A mission statement

The new name, “Dailies & Sundays,” was proposed by my friend Tom McDonald, a fellow Catholic deacon long known for his excellent Weird Catholic research and writing, and now also writing diaconal-type stuff at An Owl Among the Ruins.

“Dailies & Sundays” refers first of all to the daily and Sunday comics sections in print newspapers. Metaphorically, the name suggests the secular and the sacred, evoking the range of topics I write about as a Catholic deacon, a film critic, an art-school graduate and comics enthusiast, and whatever else I am.

Which is another way of saying that, really, the plan going forward is pretty much to keep doing what I’ve been doing!

• The homilies I preach at my parish church, and at the Catholic high school where I teach, will be posted here. I’m also going to keep thinking and writing about faith, philosophy, and spirituality.

• I plan to keep writing about comics (both daily and Sunday comics, but mostly “daily” writing—though some, like this piece on heavenly obituary cartoons and Jimmy Carter, will include bits of both).

• I hope in in 2025 to get back to more film writing about current films! (A large part of my 2024 film writing was my currently suspended epic series about meaning and nihilism in multiverse superhero movies. Most of the year’s big movies passed by with no comment from me, including Conclave and Nosferatu—a lapse that upsets me and that I hope to rectify. My film writing is a blend of “daily” and “Sunday” writing.)

• Words being my stock in trade, I’ll keep writing about language—along with anything else that interests or concerns me!

This is a weird value proposition, I admit! Most successful publications of this kind find a niche and stick with it. I’m a Catholic deacon, a film critic, a cartooning major and comics enthusiast, and a guy with a lot of interests. To mix metaphors, I want to bring everything to the table and leave everything on the field. In spirit, Dailies & Sundays will continue to be, well, All Things SDG.

If that sounds good to you, I’m delighted to have you along for the ride.