Three Dogs North

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I think I’m going to paint the moment.

I’ve always been empathetic.

Florida is huge.

You are crushing the human person right now.

You don’t know what’s coming.

I am just so happy with my life right now.

His orders are very specific.

I only read Catholic books.

We’ve run out of good ideas.

I don’t know how to be Church to people.

You don’t know how badly I want that to be true.

Why do you believe all this stuff?

I was a scoundrel.