In the fourth part of a six-part podcast lecture series on the Catholic Literary Revival, published weekly by Faith & Culture, I focus on the “Chesterbelloc Period”:
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In the fourth part of a six-part podcast lecture series on the Catholic Literary Revival, published weekly by Faith & Culture, I focus on the “Chesterbelloc Period”:
https://www.faithandculture.
I’m prophesying that the forthcoming film, Tolkien, will present the sort of perversion of the truth of which Wormtongue himself would be proud:
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What about all those missing links? Why are they still missing?
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Why is the cult of “progress” so deadly? And how is literature the dissident voice exposing the tyranny of progressivism? Here are my musings on the way that literature serves as a light amid the ruins of modernity:
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Faith & Fairy Stories
The new issue of the St. Austin Review is winging its way to the printer. Highlights of the March/April issue include:
William Randall Lancaster illustrates and alliterates “Faith, Fact and Fairy Tale”.
Sean Fitzpatrick finds fact fusing with fantasy in “A Teacher’s Tale”.
Michael Kurek discusses the inspiration for his 2nd Symphony, “Tales from the Realm of Faerie”.
Jacob Pride finds “Beauty and the Beast: Fixed and Flowing”.
Maria Devlin McNair tells of “The White Knight at the Gate of the Elysian Fields”.
Jacob Popcak waxes aesthetic on “Fairy Stories and the Catholic Artist”.
Fr. Dwight Longenecker focuses on “C. S. Lewis and Modern Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups”.
Donald DeMarco insists that “Fairy Tales Can Come True”.
Kevin O’Brien considers “a Few of our Favorite Rings”.
Stephen Brady discovers the Tolkien: Maker of Myth Exhibition to be “Superbly Peripheral”.
K. V. Turley sees the movie The Red Shoes as a cautionary film about the perils of the artistic vocation.
Philip C. Kolin weaves “A Garland of Poems” on the Seven Sacraments.
Ken Clark admires The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio.
John Beaumont writes on “Newman and the Need for the Supernatural”.
Charles Maxwell Lancaster finds a “Friend Unfailing” in the Crucified Christ.
William C. Smart reviews Galileo Revisited: The Galileo Affair in Context.
Jason Waskovich reviews Doors in the Walls of the World by Peter Kreeft.
Marie Dudzik reviews Angels, Barbarians and Nincompoops by Anthony Esolen.
Louis Markos reviews George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles.
Plus: New poetry by Pavel Chichikov, Jeffrey Essmann, Trevor Lipscombe, Kevin O’Brien and Denise Sobilo.
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What is Love? Is it merely a feeling, something essentially fleeting and ultimately irrational, as ungraspable as a cloud and as subject to the winds of change? Or is it something altogether more substantial, something Divine, which holds the very secret of the meaning of life? Read on:
What can David Bowie teach us about the world’s madness? More, it seems, than we might at first think:
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In part three of the Faith & Culture lecture series on the Catholic Literary Revival, I look at how many of the writers of the English and French Decadence discovered or returned to the Catholic Church.
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An essay of mine on the Faith and the South, originally published as an editorial in the St. Austin Review, has just been published by the Imaginative Conservative:
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