Flower of Scotland
Joseph Pearce2024-08-19T01:50:19-05:00Celebrating a little-known martyr who fought for the return of the king... Flower of Scotland - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
Learning to Love Our Neolithic Neighbours
Joseph Pearce2024-08-19T01:54:42-05:00We have more in common with our stone age ancestors than we might think... Learning to Love Our Neolithic Neighbours - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
Summer with Plutarch
Daniel J. Heisey2024-08-12T17:32:41-05:00In her novel, Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar imagined the future Roman emperor Hadrian as a young soldier in the Roman army traveling with a new volume of Plutarch in his rucksack. That novel first appeared in French in 1951 and appeared in English in 1954, and before and since, novelists have imagined their characters reading [...]
Unsung Heroes from an Undersung Country
Joseph Pearce2024-08-12T17:29:07-05:00Celebrating the heroes and saints of Poland... Unsung Heroes from an Undersung Country - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
Our Lady in Literature
Joseph Pearce2024-08-12T17:27:45-05:00Admiring the presence of the Blessed Virgin in novels and poems... Our Lady in Literature - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
Blackface
Dena Hunt2024-08-12T17:25:06-05:00I grew up in a segregated South. In my childhood, there were a few times I saw a white man wearing blackface, usually at some kind of talent show, where he’d sing a song like “Old Black Joe” or “Ole Man River”. On those occasions, there was no purpose in the blackface except as part of [...]
Waste Land to Promised Land
Joseph Pearce2024-08-12T17:22:30-05:00Joseph Pearce celebrates three literary converts: T. S. Eliot, Sigrid Undset and Maurice Baring... Waste Land to Promised Land - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
A Childhood Quest for Christ
Joseph Pearce2024-08-12T17:17:54-05:00Joseph Pearce recalls the search for Christ in his churchless childhood... My Childhood Search for Christ - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
Islamist Hate and Christian Hope
Joseph Pearce2024-08-12T17:10:21-05:00Admiring a new novella about a thirteen-year-old's quest to find his father in war-torn Iraq... Islamist Hate and Christian Hope - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)
A Dynamic Duo of Literary Converts
Joseph Pearce2024-08-12T16:53:19-05:00Celebrating three novels by two great Catholic writers... A Dynamic Duo of Literary Converts - Joseph Pearce (jpearce.co)