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|2026-02-24T19:26:39-06:00February 24th, 2026|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Imagination, Timeless Essays|

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|2025-09-05T13:37:31-05:00September 5th, 2025|Categories: Baseball, Conservatism, Family, Sports|

Baseball was in my father’s bones before he knew he had bones. And so it is for me because it was for him. Like a treasured family heirloom, baseball has been passed down in our family from one generation to the next. Cal Ripken, Sr., and Cal Ripken, Jr. Moments before the opening [...]