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Sample Content from Our Latest Issue Table of Contents Sample Article Love, Reason and Imagination: Samuel Schirra Interviews Joseph Pearce The following is from two interviews between Mr. Schirra and Mr. Pearce about Mr. Pearce’s philosophy of reading, writing, and analyzing literature, as well as his own experiences as a writer. An abridged version of this [...]
In her autobiography, My Life in Three Acts (1990), Helen Hayes contrasted her acting career with that of her friend, Maurice Evans. “Maurice had an advantage that I lacked,” she explained, “a strong drive to get ahead.” Of herself, she shrugged, “I just floated along, and things somehow fell into my lap.” Unimpressed by Evans’ drive, [...]
Robert Lawson, author and illustrator of Rabbit Hill and its sequel The Tough Winter knew something about gardens and the community they attract, that is, the animal community they attract. After all, doesn’t Rabbit Hill open with scenes of excited animals spreading the news that new folks had arrived, folks who like to garden? Robert Lawson [...]
Last week my cousin was dying. She had advanced cancer. She had asked friends and family not to call or send text messages because she was unable to respond. Telling her that no response was necessary, I sent her a photo every day of some of the devotional pictures of Christ she had seen here in [...]
A task facing an instructor in Church History is demonstrating how theology and history can complement one another. Although a course in Church History, whether early, medieval, or modern, must necessarily consider a large amount of theology, the instructor needs to avoid turning the course into a History of Theology, which for some students can become [...]
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 [...]
American novelist Lee Durkee could not have written his memoir, Stalking Shakespeare, before this point in history. This thoroughly engaging book draws upon Durkee’s two decades of researching online, emailing libraries, and using computer programs to compare facial features of Elizabethan portraiture. His candid and sometimes profane account of that research takes his readers on a [...]
The word has multiple meanings—in anatomy, geophysics—as well as figurative and literal meanings in literature. One meaning is speech—a “golden tongue,” a “diabolical tongue.” And it means language identity, as in the Greek tongue, the English tongue. And in The Acts of the Apostles: Tongues as of fire, “as of” signifying like, what we call a simile, a comparison—tongues (languages) like fire. Today [...]