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Pen Ink and Mascara
BY ELIZABETH TROUP Pen ink and mascara smear, The tear-stained pages of, Her little lined journal, With the lavender cover.
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Middle-Earth Factoids
BY EMERALD Some of them may be known to you already, but others might cause your eyebrows to shoot up your forehead.
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Enchantment: The Spell of Secondary Worlds
BY EMILY GEERLING For God’s Enchantment is just like ours, excepting this one amazing truth: God can make His Fantasy world actually exist.
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Shalott Revisited: A King Arthur Poem
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI If I should die while he is away, fighting for the honor of his own chosen lady, send him my heart in a casket of silver.
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Am I My Brother’s Keeper?: The Tragedy of Depersonalization
BY MARY FRANCES JOHNSON Ultimately, the culture of death is caused by a loss of the realization that man has dignity because he is made in God’s image.
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Winter Will Not Last Forever: An Acrostic
BY MARY-FAUSTINA Loveliness will soon burst out of this winter: from the Death comes the Beginning Again.
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12:15 Thoughts on Faramir: A Book and Movie Character Comparison
BY MARY-FAUSTINA In the books, Faramir is, indeed, very much like a saint. A hero. He is strong and wise and wholly unaffected by the Ring’s lure.
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Every Life is Wonderful: Review of the Classic Christmas Season Film “It’s a Wonderful Life”
BY ELLEN VIRGINIA More than just a warm, fuzzy Christmas story, It’s a Wonderful Life contains a great depth of substance and emotional power.
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Love is Not an Accident
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Love is not an accident of chemicals that crossed in space; it flows from Everlasting Choice and rushes with a Timeless Grace.
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A Mother’s Love
BY ELLEN VIRGINIA We’ve longed for you in ages past. Can it be true You’ve come at last? I wonder still how this can be? Why have you selected me?
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Holiday Season in the Holy Land: Thoughts, Ideas, and Tips on Travel
BY DAVID HAMBURGER Regardless of how the time is spent, a trip to the Holy Land is undoubtedly a singular and deeply memorable opportunity.
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December Morning Message: A Sestina with an Extra Verse
BY MARY-FAUSTINA Before leukemia took her, my wife bought me this coat. For a year now, the grief’s surface has stayed three feet overhead.
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The Legend of Holly Claus: A Book Review
BY KAT CLEMENTS It’s a delightful expanded fairy-tale with a dash of Dickens, a dollop of romance, and a hearty helping of wonder.
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Flight of the Angels
BY MARY-FAUSTINA They rise up in tornadic flight, unleashing scarlet firelight. They pour it on the coal-cloaked hills, the bloodless frosts.
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Our Love Must Make Us Strong: The Music and Mysticism of Loreena McKennitt
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Unlike some other Celtic singers, she does not succumb to musical clannishness but uses her roots to branch out into new dimensions.
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Cantate Alleluia (Sing Alleluia)
BY EMERALD Christ is born today; sing Alleluia! He has come to save us; sing Alleluia! Rejoice, nations of the world! Your King is with you now.
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Come Quick! Real Elves!: A Human’s Wistful Reflections on the Immortals of Middle-Earth
BY MARY-FAUSTINA Elves are, simply put, stunning to the point of unfairness, made manifest especially by the directors and designers of The Lord of the Rings.