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Forests of Grief
BY BEN STAPLETON A slow, rolling breeze blew through the trees in the forest behind the farmhouse, and the leaves began to rustle under the sinking sun.
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Surprised by “The Most Reluctant Convert” (2021): A Review
BY GIOVANNI COSTABILE Director Norman Stone (Shadowlands) tributes Clive Staples Lewis with a new biopic, this time treating “the shape of [his] early years” until his fully-conscious re-conversion to Christianity past his teenager atheism.
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The Possible Fate of the Statue of Our Lady of Walsingham
BY T. J. GUILE This article aims to discuss the importance of Walsingham to the medieval Christians who once flocked there and why, in the sixteenth century English Reformation, local people would probably have wanted to protect and preserve their precious statue of Our Lady of Walsingham.
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A Poem For Holy Wisdom
BY SEAN EARNER In every blue there is an orange and a yellow said Van Gogh
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The Dune Dilemma: Adapting A Tale about Power Going Wrong
BY G. CONNOR SALTER Frank Herbert’s novel Dune continues to divide readers concerned about “Might as Right.” So how have the movie adaptations handled this problem?
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Drinking the Water of Cellar Door: A review of the Tolkien biopic
BY GIOVANNI COSTABILE The matter is complex and has its roots in the origins of the philosophy of language.
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The Underlying Christianity of Tolkien
BY MARTINA JURICKOVA Tolkien’s theory on fairy stories and their purpose to promote elements of moral truth was known in academic circles since the 1940s.
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The Lifespan of a Garden
BY Raquel Fantoni A spring birth comes with dangers for seedlings.
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Compare with Me: Themes in the Poetry of Anne Bradstreet
BY MARTINA JURICKOVA Anne Bradstreet is considered a Puritan writer, if nothing else because of the place where she lived.
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The Young are Restless
By Hannah Skipper It must have been the thick blanket of fog that clung to everything in the jungle…
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The Fox and the Lyre
BY RON DRUMMOND The bard made his rest known to all. Sleep found him quickly after his playing. Deeply he dreamt, far and beyond.
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Pilgrimage to a Small Island: An American Britophile’s Reflection
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI This is merely a shadow of all that you are, but are not dreams reflections of some eternal state, some deeper reality which we chase?
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Hope in Fortitude
By Amanda Pizzolatto Bronwe athan Harthad. Hope beyond endurance. A fortitude that took him to places no one else dared to go…
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Charles III: A Philosopher-King for Our Time
By Ryan Hunter Thoughts on the published Coronation Liturgy of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, “Called to Serve”
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Resurrection Reality
What does it mean for Christ to be raised? How can we know this to be true? And what does all this mean for us?
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Life After Narnia
By Ophelia Lucy avoided mirrors after she had come back from her last trip to Narnia. She avoided Susan too, although she hated herself for it.
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The Role of Catholic Recusant Women in Early Modern England
By T. J. Guile This article is a study of some aspects of the role of Catholic women in sixteenth-century England.
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Charles Williams: Why He Matters and How to Learn About Him
Williams’ complex work and complex personality make him a difficult, yet important figure to study.
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“The April Fool”
“Tear down this temple,” the April Fool cried, “and on the third day shalt I raise it up.”