Blog: The Ink Desk

Is love to be found in a lead-lined casket? Choosing Death to Find Love - Joseph Pearce

(Venice) Annunciation by Giambattista Pittoni - Gallerie Accademia Tolkien shows us how to get from a hobbit hole to heaven, via the Annunciation and the Crucifixion... Celebrating the Annunciation with Frodo Baggins - Joseph Pearce

In 1755 Samuel Johnson published in two stout volumes his Dictionary, one of the first such endeavors for the English language. An erudite curmudgeon, he then turned his attention to the plays of William Shakespeare. By 1765 Johnson had published prefaces and notes to each of the plays appearing in the First Folio of Shakespeare’s comedies, [...]

It’s the first week of Lent, and people at church are asking each other, What are you giving up for Lent. It’s almost like asking, What did you get for Christmas. In local church communities, we are getting close to the point Christmas tragically reached long ago—self indulgent banality. I heard someone on television answer the [...]

Announcing the launch of Joseph Pearce's YouTube channel...  Announcing My New YouTube Channel - Joseph Pearce

  Is Shylock the victim of an anti-Jewish conspiracy? All is revealed...  An Anti-Jewish Conspiracy? - Joseph Pearce

Does the world need unity or charity? Unity or Charity? - Joseph Pearce

Portia's charity versus Shylock's hatred... The Quality of Portia's Mercy - Joseph Pearce

Ever since the early 1960s and Robert Bolt’s play and film, A Man for All Seasons, Thomas Cardinal Wolsey (c. 1473-1530) has entered the popular imagination as a menacing villain. Whether portrayed by Orson Welles in 1966 or by John Gielgud in 1988, Bolt’s version of Wolsey was of an elderly and devious man trying to [...]

Some romantic reading for Catholics on Saint Valentine's Day... Two Novels and a Play for Saint Valentine's Day - Joseph Pearce