Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article 50 Years After the Father's Farewell This September marks the fiftieth anniversary of J. R. R. Tolkien’s voyage to the Blessed Realm. Husband, father, scholar, author, artist—a myriad of titles could not do justice to the man behind the mythology of Middle-earth. However, there is [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article Who is Tom Bombadil? Mystery. Enigma. These are two words to describe Tom Bombadil. Ever since his first appearance in The Fellowship of the Ring, published in 1954, he has left readers guessing and debating about who he is. Many have spent decades conjecturing [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article The Great Divorce: A Novel Answer to an Immodest Proposal Well before Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone debuted in 1959, C. S. Lewis wrote a fantasy novel that crossed over “into another dimension” not only of sight, sound, and mind, but of soul. Published during the [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article Darkness at Noon and the Light of Christ In 1972, a man brandishing a hammer and screaming, “I’m Jesus Christ! I have risen from the dead!” attacked Michelangelo’s Pieta in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, doing considerable damage to the marble statue’s eye, veil, nose, [...]
Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article One With the Eternal Good: The Harmony of Faith and Reason in Dante's Quest for Truth Dante Alighieri’s masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, should not be understood as a fanciful work of fiction about a man travelling from Hell to Heaven. Rather, the intended aim of [...]
November/December 2022 Issue – Europe of the Faith Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article Queen Elizabeth II: A Eulogy The following eulogy was given following a solemn Requiem Mass for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Taylors, South Carolina, on September 23, 2022. On September [...]
September/October 2022 Issue – Faith, Reason and the Love of Wisdom Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article To Those Who Doubt Among Outsiders It has been nearly a decade since I redeployed from Afghanistan. I still recall the majestic immensity of the powdered peaks looming in the distance like the [...]
July/August 2022 Issue – Women and the Word: The Feminine Voice in Christian Culture Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article A Mighty Voice for Virtue: Hrotsvitha's Paphnutius and the Baptism of Classical Drama My wife and I were married on September 11th—a day, as our priest recalled, quite infamous in [...]
March/April 2022 Issue – The Age of Shakespeare Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article Putting Romance and Marriage to the Test in Venice and Verona – Jane Wilkes Shakespeare’s plays, The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet both take as their assumption that Christian married love must contain both eros [...]
March/April 2022 Issue – The Age of Shakespeare Sample Content from Our Latest Issue March/April 2022 Issue – The Age of Shakespeare Sample Article Putting Romance and Marriage to the Test in Venice and Verona – Jane Wilkes Shakespeare’s plays, The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet both take as their assumption that Christian [...]