The Weekend Read

In one of the essays from her collection, Mystery and Manners, Flannery O’Connor cites a story by Caroline Gordon (1895-1981), a Catholic convert and friend of O’Connor’s who is sadly too often neglected when the roll call of great Catholic… Read More

Introducing High Concepts

I’m very pleased to announce today the release of my first novel for adults, High Concepts: A Hollywood Nightmare. It’s a dark comic spin on the age-old premise of a philosopher who goes to Hollywood and overnight becomes the film… Read More

In Defence (Again) of Penny Dreadfuls

One of the strangest examples of the degree to which ordinary life is undervalued is the example of popular literature, the vast mass of which we contentedly describe as vulgar. The boy’s novelette may be ignorant in a literary sense,… Read More

Pet Peeve

There’s a chilling scene in P.D. James’s dystopian novel, The Children of Men–a story set in the near future in which the human race is no longer able to produce children–in which a woman is described pushing a stroller down… Read More

The Church Deserves Better

I’ve bumped into a couple of things in the last day or so from Catholics working in the entertainment industry that have resonated with me and with things I have talked about on this blog (such as here and here).… Read More

On Work as Craft

For this Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker, three thoughts on the meaning of work as craft…
1. Work is not meant to be worship in what Matthew B. Crawford calls the “cult of the sovereign self”; rather, work is… Read More

The Hunger Games Post-Game Review

There was an interesting discussion this week over at The Personalist Project as to the lack of a sense of the Divine in The Hunger Games. Katie van Schaijik, in a perceptive review of the film, concludes thus:
This lack… Read More

Sir Anthony Hopkins at TAC

Here’s an encouraging story about the power of beauty…
On Facebook this morning I came upon a post about a visit Sir Anthony Hopkins made to Thomas Aquinas College after driving by and noticing the gorgeous exterior of the college… Read More

Calling All Atlanta-Macon Movie Lovers…

I’m looking forward to visiting Mercer University in Macon, Georgia this week to talk about Aquinas in one of their Great Books seminars as well as to give a presentation entitled, “Aristotle Goes Hollywood: Seeking the Truth in Popular Cinema.”… Read More

Support New Pro-Life Movie

The title of this post is the same as the title of emails I’ve received from time to time encouraging me to come see a new independent movie that speaks to the values of pro-lifers.
In a post last month… Read More

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Crafting Culture

the arts, entertainment, media

“A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.” --G.K. Chesterton

About Daniel McInerny

Daniel McInerny

Daniel McInerny is a writer and the CEO of Trojan Tub Entertainment, a web-based children’s entertainment company featuring his humorous Patria series of children’s books. A native of South Bend, Indiana, Daniel holds a BA in English from the University of Notre Dame and an MA and PhD in philosophy from The Catholic University of America. Before starting Trojan Tub Entertainment in 2011, he held positions over many years at various universities in the United States. He currently lives in Virginia with his wife Amy and their three children, Lucy, Rita and Francis.


A veteran blogger, Daniel is passionately and personally dedicated to the New Evangelization of culture through the arts, entertainment and media. The spirit driving “Crafting Culture” is best expressed by the following words from Pope John Paul II’s Letter to Artists:


“Even beyond its typically religious expressions, true art has a close affinity with the world of faith, so that, even in situations where culture and the Church are far apart, art remains a kind of bridge to religious experience. In so far as it seeks the beautiful, fruit of an imagination which rises above the everyday, art is by its nature a kind of appeal to the mystery. Even when they explore the darkest depths of the soul or the most unsettling aspects of evil, artists give voice in a way to the universal desire for redemption.”


So think of “Crafting Culture” as your virtual cafe, a place to visit awhile and discuss how the Catholic tradition might be brought to bear upon some of the most powerfully influential segments of our culture.


Families and children are invited to learn more about Trojan Tub Entertainment by visiting the interactive Kingdom of Patria website at http://kingdomofpatria.com.You can follow the company on Facebook as well as on Twitter at @kingdomofpatria. Please email Daniel at danielmcinerny@kingdomofpatria.com.