Search Results for “Colin Dickey”

Unfit for Heaven and Earth

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Kali Handelman

By Ed Simon A review of Afterlives of Saints, in which author Colin Dickey examines that borderland where saints and sinners alone exist, oftentimes within the same person. Continue Reading →

Saint George, the Monstrous Saint

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Kali Handelman

An excerpt from Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith (Unbridled Books, 228 pp.) by Colin Dickey. Much of the actual life of George is lost to history, if he was in fact a real person. Continue Reading →

Cities and the Dead

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Kali Handelman

Colin Dickey writes about cities and the dead for Lapham’s Quarterly. From “Necropolis”:

Throughout early Christendom, bishops consolidated power around the tomb. The cemetery where St. Peter was buried was well outside of Rome’s city walls in a distant plot of land named Vatican Hill. But it was here, not in the city itself, that his followers built his basilica. The religious power base—in Tébessa, Nola, Rome, and elsewhere—had shifted to the periphery, creating an imbalance that could not last. One way or another, the saint would have to come inside the city.

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