Three Dogs North

Any imperfection that I have, feel free to point it out.

If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my heart His love for the world, and this was my most prideful, foolish, and dangerous prayer. It was my step into the abyss. As soon as I prayed it, I knew that I would die. I knew the old wrong and the death that lay in the world. Just as a good man would not coerce the love of his wife, God does not coer...

Hey, all. Sorry for the sound quality. The guys forgot the power chord for the sound board on their pilgrimage to France. You’ll just have to deal till they get back. Peace!

“That was more than sixty years ago. My friend grew up and learned all about entropy and supernovas and colliding galaxies and quantum mechanics and the general theory of relativity. But still, when she closes her eyes, she can see that carpet of stars and hear her father’s voice: “God made the world beautiful because he loves us.” Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It’s a romance....

Hey all. Rob’s getting ordained in about two weeks, and we talk about that. Here’s something to check out: Seeing the Invisible by Catholic Stuff You Should Know (on the analogy of faith and falling in love). Hope you’re having a great week. God bless!

“E. L. Doctorow once said that ‘writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’…This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard.” -Anne Lamott,  Bird by Bird Greetings, friends. Thanks for your patience as the guys get back from the Holy Land and I get settled into my new ro...

“We are moving forward by remembering the past.” This podcast episode brought to you by Kodak disposable cameras. Here is some stuff to check out: Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry I’m pretty under the weather, so that’s about all the description I can muster. Enjoy! And please review us on iTunes . Contact us at threedogsnorth@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter . And like us on Facebook . Time to rest.

“The Lord God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it. The Lord God gave the man this order: You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From that tree you shall not eat; when you eat from it you shall die.” -Genesis 2:15-17 Greetings, friends. Sorry again for the delay between episodes while t...

“We tremble here on a vertiginous edge. The self is not a thing but a perspective; but, as Nagel reminds us, perspectives are not  in the world but  on the world.”   -Roger Scruton  The Face of God Apologies for the quality of connection. The guys are on pilgrimage in the Holy Land right now but found the time to podcast. Contact us at threedogsnorth@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @threedogsnorth...

When he took the three disciples To the mountainside to pray, His countenance was modified, his clothing was aflame. Two men appeared: Moses and Elijah came; They were at his side. The prophecy, the legislation spoke of whenever he would die.   -Sufjan Stevens,  The Transfiguration Mike and Rob are headed off to the Holy Land for a few months, so podcasts will be sparse for a while. Enjoy this ext...

“A new law of the Cosmos, applicable only to the recently appeared triadic creature: If you’re a big enough fool to climb a tree and like a cat refuse to come down, then someone who loves you has to make as big a fool of himself to rescue you.”   – Walker Percy,  Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book Here is some stuff we mention in the episode: Manchester by the Sea  (Movie trailer) Office...

“All glory be to God on high, and to the earth be peace! good will henceforth from God to man: begin and never cease!”   -The Oh Hellos, Mvmt II., “Begin and Never Cease” The three of us went to a concert that we all really liked. Here is some stuff we mention: The Oh Hellos Christmas Extravaganza Tour Stranger Things (TV Show) Homilies of Fr. Nick Blaha  (available on iTunes via “Didde Catholic C...

“And just as we should need some extra powers of breathing, not contained in our nature, to live on another planet, so we need extra powers in our soul, not contained in our nature, in order that we may live the life of heaven. These powers which are not ours by nature, which are necessary in order that we may live a life totally above our nature, are what is called in Catholic teaching, the Super...

“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory’; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination...

“Dad’s philosophy of life was that if you can get somebody on a lawn chair, outside on a Sunday, while he was doing pork steaks in the barbeque pit, listening to Harry Caray and the Saint Louis Cardinals in the background with a bottle of Busch, you could win over anybody. There’s nobody that if you eyeball, have a beer with, and really start talking to…rare would be the person with whom you would...

“I see it now,” she said. “You think times have lengths. A night is always a night whatever you do in it, as from this tree to that is always so many paces whether you take them quickly or slowly. I suppose that is true in a way. But the waves do not always come at equal distances. I see that you come from a wise world…if this is wise. I have never done it before-stepping out of life into the Alon...

Such was my heart, O God, such was my heart. You had pity on it when it was at the bottom of the abyss. Now let my heart tell you what it was seeking there in that I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved s...

With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling   We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, unremembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the childr...

The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire.   Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We onl...

“Say your prayers in a garden early, ignoring steadfastly the dew, the birds and the flowers, and you will come away overwhelmed by its freshness and joy; go there in order to be overwhelmed and, after a certain age, nine times out of ten nothing will happen to you.” – C.S. Lewis,  The Four Loves , p.22 Greetings, friends. We recorded this episode together on 3 North after I surprised Metz and Jui...

Another podcast, another thing checked off the list. Here’s some stuff: To Save a Thousand Souls by Fr. Brett Brannen Stoner by John Williams Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis Kieran Setiya on the Midlife Crisis by Philosophy Bites Get ahold of us via email at threedogsnorth@gmail.com. Follow us on Twitter @threedogsnorth. Like us on Facebook . Review us on iTunes . If you will.

I have a cold, and Mike might too. We talk about mediation in this episode. Here’s some stuff to check out: Stained glass window of Mary Immaculate at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Chicago The Liturgy Guys with Dr. Denis McNamara and Mr. Chris Carstens Echoes from the Bell Tower by the Monks of St. Meinrad Abbey Fr. Vincent Capodanno The Bishop by Anton Chekhov (short story) Email us at threedo...

Here are a couple of things mentioned in the episode you might want to check out: Lancelot by Walker Percy Priests for the Third Millenium  by Timothy Cardinal Dolan City of God by Saint Augustine The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 12 Foundations of Western Civilization  (Great Courses) by Thomas F. X. Noble The Importance of Having a Tribe by The Art of Manliness Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis...

Greetings, friends. Miraculously, we are already beginning our fifth season of the podcast, despite only having been at it for a little over two years! The dogs are back in their right place, and we should be at it pretty steadily for a while. You can expect weekly podcasts, and hopefully some more written work on the website . In case you’d like to check out some of the things mentioned on the ep...

Unbelievably, this is our hundredth episode. To mark the occasion, threedogsnorth.com has gotten a facelift, and the architect behind the scenes of this whole project finally steps out from behind the microphone. Special thanks to my brother Ethan for getting Three Dogs North off the ground more than two years ago, and for giving us the advice that has kept us going: “keep doing it until it’s good...