Jessica Keating, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Jessica Keating

Jessica Keating is Director of the Notre Dame Office of Human Dignity and Life Initiatives, where she engages in scholarship that strives to recover the concept of human dignity for the theological and philosophical imagination.

Cultivating the Christian Imagination of the Child

By Jessica Keating|2019-09-14T09:06:54-05:00September 14th, 2019|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Imagination|

Scripture speaks of childhood, not merely as a passing biological phase, but as the very heart of what it means to be human. The child also reflects the mystery of Christ, and in the child we glimpse something of the divine reality. Recently I was talking to a mother of two young children, who explained [...]

Time and America’s Pastime: Baseball With My Dad

By Jessica Keating|2023-08-23T18:38:50-05:00June 15th, 2019|Categories: Baseball, Conservatism, Family, Sports|

My early childhood was so steeped in the narrative of baseball that for years I really believed the New York Yankees were a criminal gang. Cal Ripken, Sr., and Cal Ripken, Jr. Moments before the opening pitch of a Giants-Cardinals doubleheader at the Polo Grounds in the summer of 1934, my dad remembers [...]