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Celebrating Easter in a Pandemic
By Ben Fearn No one can forget what it was like trying to find Christian community and commemorate Christian holidays during the COVID pandemic’s peak. Ben Fearn ponders what it means to celebrate death and resurrection during troubling times.
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The Ekron Initiative: Introduction
BY G. CONNOR SALTER When a freelance journalist receives a leather dossier of messages from the enemy, he doesn’t know he’s getting an inside look at how evangelical Christianity has changed over the last fifty years.
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TV Review: The Sandman Season 1
BY G. CONNOR SALTER After 30 years of development, is the Netflix adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman worth it?
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Heart unto Heart
By Avellina Balestri In honor of the Feast of the Sacred Heart, the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, and all my fellow pro-life advocates who have dedicated their lives to caring for women and children, born and unborn.
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Christmas Shopping for Cormac McCarthy: A Reading Adventure
By G. CONNOR SALTER What happens when your book club selects their Christmas reading… and it turns out to be less than Christmas-y? G. Connor Salter describes his experiencce reading Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.
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Dreamer of the Day
Listen, Dreamer of the Day: The desert calls you, like a prayer; Her sands, the tide of destiny, washing everything clean but the hearts of men.
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The Forgotten Canonisation Cause of King James II
By Charles A. Coulombe As we pass the 339th anniversary of James II’s coronation, Charles A. Coulombe considers the case for the king’s sainthood.
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Alone with God: Blaise Pascal on The Importance of Solitude
BY THOMAS MOORE The author describes the importance of solitude and examination of conscience as a means of growing closer to God, specifically in the thought of the Catholic theologian, Blaise Pascal.
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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.