Issue 27

“Christian journalism that isn’t just part of the culture war.”

ROSS DOUTHAT

“The Lamp is where I go to read interesting things about Catholic life.” 

EMMA GREEN, The New Yorker

“A cheeky, eclectic literary journal.” 

JENNIFER SCHUESSLER, New York Times

“Delightful, eccentric, and challenging.”

MICHAEL BRENDAN DOUGHERTY, National Review

“A Catholic version of The New Yorker.”

JONATHAN LIEDL, Catholic Spirit

“It is entertaining, gorgeously beautiful, and does what it should do: get a Catholic thinking.”

EDUARD HABSBURG, ambassador of Hungary to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta

“Inspiring, balanced, truthful perspectives on faith and culture.”

LILA ROSE, Live Action

“A place for writers to tell the truth in reported pieces, reviews, and essays, without being yoked to the noise of the news cycle or needing to speak of Christ only in muted tones.”

LEAH LIBRESCO SARGEANT, Building the Benedict Option: A Guide to Gathering Two or Three Together in His Name

“The Lamp is proof positive that Catholic intellectual life, in all its breadth and depth, is blossoming. It gives me hope.”

ZENA HITZ, tutor at St. John’s College and author of Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

"The Lamp pairs perfectly with a couple of fingers of bourbon, neat, and a smoke on the front porch in the evening before dinner."

MICAH MATTIX, Prufrock