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Friday, November 6, 2026

Preview: Chesterton and Undset on the Son Rise Morning Show

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In alphabetical order, Chesterton is the next English Catholic influence on Sigrid Undset in our Son Rise Morning Show  series, which we...
Friday, October 30, 2026

Preview: Belloc and Undset and Church History, Part III

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In what I think is our last discussion (on Monday, November 2, All Soul's Day) of Belloc's The Catholic Church and History for this...
Friday, October 23, 2026

Preview: Belloc's "The Catholic Church and History" and Undset, Part II

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As we continue to look at Belloc's The Catholic Church and History and its influence on Sigrid Undset in our Son Rise Morning Show ser...
Friday, October 9, 2026

Preview: Undset and Belloc on the SRMS

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Update: We had to postpone this discussion because I had major computer problems! We'll talk about Belloc and Undset on Monday, October ...
Friday, October 2, 2026

Preview: Sigrid Undset and Benson on "The Cross" on the Son Rise Morning Show

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The third volume of Sigrid Undset's Nobel Prize Winning novel  Kristen Lavransdatter is titled The Cross , so it makes sense that Matt ...
Friday, September 25, 2026

Preview: Undset and Benson's "Christ in the Church" on the Son Rise Morning Show

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Sigrid Undset read and translated another book by Monsignor Robert H. Benson, Christ in the Church (as  Kristus i kirken in 1926) so we wi...
Friday, September 18, 2026

Preview: Undset and Robert Hugh Benson: "The Friendship of Christ"

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To begin our discussion of the English Catholic influences on Sigrid Undset's conversion to Catholicism on the Son Rise Morning Show , w...
Friday, September 11, 2026

Back on the SRMS: Sigrid Undset and English Catholicism

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On Monday, September 14, we'll begin a new series on the Son Rise Morning Show , looking at how much English Catholicism influenced Sigr...
Friday, August 28, 2026

Preview: King Nebuchadnezzar and the form "like the Son of God" in Keble's "Christian Year"

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Three of my favorite Old Testament stories to hear at daily Mass are from the Second Book of Maccabees  and from the  Book of Daniel . From ...
Friday, August 21, 2026

Preview: John Keble's Poem for Saint Bartholomew's Feast

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Monday, August 24 is the feast day of Saint Bartholomew so naturally, we'll continue our Son Rise Morning Show series on John Keble wit...