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Book Review: Unblemished by Sara Ella
BY EMILY KOPF Eliyana soon finds herself in a world much larger and more complicated than she’s ever known.
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When Music Plays
BY CLARE-THERESE Jesting with reality, the harmony keeps me riveted to the seat, and I clutch the arms lest I float away.
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Aragorn’s Victory Song: A Lord of the Rings Poem
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI I see a fire behind your eyes that darkness cannot quell; As ashes from the mountain rise, you’ll storm the gates of Hell.
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Bitter Food Makes You Mad
BY CIARA ZAKETTI “Be the personal liaison as far as communicating with the police goes. It can be a way to break your wings in, so to speak.”
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Writing Groups: A How-To Instructional
BY BETHANY MCGEAN If you’ve been a devotee of C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien for a while, you’ve probably heard about The Inklings.
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Canticle to the Creator
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Blessed be the Creator of the Universe who has put me where I am from all time and eternity.
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A Day in the Homeschooler’s Life: I’m Gonna Call it Home
BY CLARE-THERESE A feeling of intense gratitude came to me as we tossed conversation around the pizza table for our family and our life together.
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Summer Evening
BY MARY-FAUSTINA The evening is soft and the purple dusk deep, the village a-slumber, my baby asleep.
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Wayminding Words from Oldendom
BY BYRNWIGA Having wordbooks and book-lore with only English words (and no outlandish words whatsoever) is not too hard to think of or understand.
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If I Could Speak in Elvish: A Lord of the Rings Poem
BY EMILY GEERLING If I could speak in Elvish I would stump all my friends, saying things in a tongue they could not understand.
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Learning to Swim in the Genre Lake
BY MIRRIAM NEAL Have you ever gone through a phase where you realize you’ve read nothing but fantasy for three months?
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The Real McCoy: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin Novels
BY IAN KOSCO They illustrate what is most important for a man, and for a society, when faced with the dangers and challenges that will surely come.
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A Band for All Seasons: Switchfoot Review
BY CLARE-THERESE Switchfoot is a band for deep thinkers. They’re a band for all seasons – a band of powerful songs.
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Ten Interesting Facts I’ve Learned While Studying Astronomy
BY EMILY GEERLING I’ve always thought of the sky, outer space in particular, as a scary place where there are things so big it makes your brain hurt.
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Love Hurts: A My Fair Lady Story
BY EMILY RADENMACHER “For the record, Eliza, I did show some emotions, but you didn’t see them because I expressed them somewhere else.”
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Our Lady of Britannia
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Thou stood on Newgate Arch and graced Pendragon’s shield; Cardigan bore they taper, and Walsingham thy seal.
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Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust: Living a Fairy Tale Every Day
BY ALEXANDRA JEZIERSKI There is something gripping about fairy tales. As we read them, we are enthralled, captivated, enchanted.
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A Quirkish Contradiction: An Exploration of the British Constitution
BY O’NEILL Since, unlike the US, we lack a codified constitution, our Parliament may pass any darn legislation it wishes.
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A Promise Lives: The Musical Moods of Middle-Earth
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI The musical score behind Sir Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy is intricately crafted to match the proportions of the epic tale.
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Papal Factoids
BY BYRNWIGA The great deal of discussion surrounding the resignation of His Holiness Benedict XVI has led to observations of clerical dress.