My latest article for the Newman Society Journal gives an account of my recent voyage to the End of the World, or the World’s End:

What does the Risen Christ show us about the modern world and our place within it? These Easter Musings are the topic of my latest article for the Imaginative Conservative:

My latest article for the Newman Society Journal emphasizes the importance of kindling the love of poetry in young people:

https://journal.newmansociety.org/2018/03/teaching-poems-every-catholic-know/

A few weeks ago I guest-taught a class on Chesterton’s essays at Southern Wesleyan University. After class, I gave an interview with a student in which I answered questions on the experience of joy in one’s life, on the life of prayer, and on my own work and those I’ve written about, including Chesterton, C. S. Lewis and Solzhenitsyn. The interview has now been published:

This provocative question is asked and answered in an article of mine just published by the Imaginative Conservative:

I am pleased to see that an excerpt from my new book, Further Up and Further In: Understanding Narnia (TAN Books), has just been published by my friends at Religion en Libertad in Spain.

Last week, during a visit to Santiago in Chile to give a talk at a Catholic university, I was interviewed by my good friend, Magdalena Merbilhaa. Our conversation ranged from my meeting with Solzhenitsyn, to the poets of World War One, and then to Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights. The full 20 minute video interview can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/H3XHwKXHX88

I recently guest-taught a tenth grade class for a friend of mine on the topic of Chesterton and his book on St. Francis of Assisi. My experience in the classroom is recounted in my latest article for the Newman Society Journal:

I have recently finished judging the essays submitted to a national Tolkien & Lewis high school essay contest. I was greatly encouraged by the quality of the essays and by the extent to which high school students find deep inspiration in the works of Tolkien & Lewis. My encouragement at their inspiration is expressed in this article for the Newman Society’s Journal:

https://journal.newmansociety.org/2018/03/catholic-high-school-students-find-inspiration-tolkien-lewis/

My latest article for the Imaginative Conservative asks us to think more deeply about what is truly normal.