Neil Dhingra, a Roman Catholic, is a doctoral student in education at the University of Maryland. (His views are solely his own). He is especially interested in Church history, ecumenism, and pedagogy.
By Neil Dhingra
Should we think of the church as a family?
Tolstoy famously wrote, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” and the line also seems to apply to the ch... Read More...
By Neil Dhingra
In terms of book-length philosophical studies of professional wrestling, Douglas Edwards’s thoroughly enjoyable Philosophy Smackdown (2020) claims to be “the first of its kind,” which makes m... Read More...
By Neil Dhingra
Behold your son … Behold your mother.
— John 19:25
We do not know where St. Mary has been, at least not since the miracle of Cana, after which Jesus had gone down to Capernaum with his fam... Read More...
By Neil Dhingra
Famously, Dorothy Day once said, “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.” The writer Robert Ellsberg, who had recorded that line, noted that Day did not want to be r... Read More...
By Neil Dhingra
In her Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, the St. John’s College tutor Zena Hitz presents an engagingly diverse (and often imprisoned) set of thinkers: Dorothy Day... Read More...
Part of a series on the Ten Commandments.
By Neil Dhingra
In Alex Gibney’s The Inventor, a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, the turtlenecked and deep-voiced founder and erstwhile CEO of Theranos, now i... Read More...
By Neil Dhingra
Unsurprisingly, amidst this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Albert Camus’ The Plague has again become popular. According to the writer Samuel Earle, in Japan more copies sold in March than during ... Read More...
This post continues a series of essays on preaching from the perspective of lay people. Previous entries may be found here.
By Neil Dhingra
Perhaps the most haunting photographs from this “Time of the Vir... Read More...