About Lydwine…

Lydwine is a community of the arts, broadly Catholic, devoted to pursuing and preserving sacramental imagination in an increasingly Antichristic culture.

Emphasizing nuance, originality, and the longue durée, Lydwine delights in stories and struggles ignored by others - stories from the margins, of saints, near saints, and ne'er-do-wells, the visions of a fallen world remade and re-enchanted through imagination, then brought to perfection through the generous gift of God's grace.

Our patroness, Saint Lydwine of Schiedam, is emblematic of the approach we favor - a holy victim of the Middle Ages whose sufferings and visions are almost too bizarre to be believed, and so passed over by most in favor of more anodyne sanctity. It's been in embracing such outliers of the Christian imagination that we've uncovered the work that, vocationally speaking, we feel most called to pursue.

In our first five years, following the ebb and flow of liturgical time as it suggests itself to the work in progress, we've offered new works of poetry, prose, theatre, music, conversation, photography, film and other visual art for an audience grown to all 50 states and 95 nations.

Some highlights include:

• a conversation concerning repentance and forgiveness with former IRA bomber Shane Paul O'Doherty

• a two-part profile of legendary music writer Stanley Booth, whose work with Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, and the Rolling Stones (among others) served as surprising prelude to a spiritual conversion

• a panel discussion on why William Friedkin's 1973 masterpiece The Exorcist might be the most compelling Catholic film of all time

• photojournalism exploring the legacy of both the Indian boarding schools and Black ghost towns of Oklahoma

• a first-ever history of the seminal Alabama country music duo Nelstone's Hawaiians, and also a full-length arthouse country album from Lydwine's own house band, the Cimarron Kings

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