Creativity as a Call to Virtue?
Sooner or later, the writer of creative fiction seems bound to ask just how free are my characters? Good writers strive to make their…
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The Myth Made Fact in the Local Congregation
One of the stumbling blocks that held C. S. Lewis back from embracing Christianity was his inability to understand how the death of an…
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Featured Artist: Jay Johnstone
Jay Johnstone has recently burst onto the scene as a Tolkien artist. His images of Tolkien characters are distinctive – he paints figures from…
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Review: Imaginative Apologetics
Andrew Davison (ed). Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition. 2011. Reprint, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012. In his Introduction, Andrew Davison…
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An Exercise in Transposition: Reflections on ‘The Artist’
In a featurette on the making of the film ‘The Artist’, actor James Cromwell, who plays Clifton the chauffeur remarks about the film, ‘What’s…
Read MoreMything the Point: Why Some Stories Strike True and Others Fall Short [Part Two]
George MacDonald speaks of the true essence of a meaningful fairytale in his classic essay, “The Fantastic Imagination”: [A fairytale] cannot help having some…
Read MoreJ.R.R. Tolkien & C.S. Lewis on the True Myth of the Gospel
On 30 January 1945, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote to his son Christopher about the ‘beauty’ of the Christian story. Regarding the ‘Eden “myth”’,…
Read MoreMything the Point: Why Some Stories Strike True and Others Fall Short [Part One]
Have you ever noticed how some stories make a deep impression on certain people yet fail to make a dent in others? You know…
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