Comparison of the Novels “Jane Eyre” and “Anna Karenina”
Jane Eyre is feisty and not very pretty, so we are told. But we fall in love with a little girl who has a sensitive heart willing to forgive and pray for those who torment…
Year: 2023
Imam Ali (as) and Imam Hussein (as): Saints and Guides for All of Humanity
“Should poverty, illness and death not exist, man would not bow to anything.” Imam Hussein (as) “Be like the flower that gives off its fragrance even to the hand that crushes it.” Imam Ali…
If You Go Down to the Woods
(The basic idea of this story has been shamelessly pinched, apologies, but too good to waste) Deeper and deeper into the woods the pair rode until Miss Walker frankly admitted she was lost. She was…
St. Gabriel Possenti and the Sanctity of Fighting
Familiarity breeds contempt, according to the old saying. Outside that, familiarity breeds something worse—complacency. Part of my own personal theory as to why Christianity has suffered a reversal of fortunes in the 20th and 21st…
A Kernel of Wheat, a Cross on Calvary, and a French Mystic
As Christians we are called to live like Christ and he has given us a beautiful example not only in his willingness to bear the cross but in his resoluteness as he knowingly approached it.…
Edmund the Martyr
“And then the heathens became madly incensed because of this faith, for he always asked Christ to his help. Then they shot at him with missiles, as if for their sport, until he was entirely…
St. Catherine of Genoa and Baron Von Hugel: An Encounter in Eternity
There of pure Virgins none Is fairer seen, Save One, Than Mary Magdalene. Gaze without doubt or fear Ye to whom generous Love, by any name, is dear. Love makes the life to be A…
Did Screwtape Predict Monty Python?: C.S. Lewis as a Contributor to British Comedy
This year marks 80 years since The Screwtape Letters was published in book form (February 1942, to be exact). The book’s impact can be measured in many ways, such as how many writers have used…
Gandalf the Procrastinator: A Character Study
Revisiting a post written many years ago, which has also since appeared in the Inner Circle Writers’ Magazine—it’s about one of Tolkien’s most famous characters, but explores him in a unique way... As with many…
Love Left in England: An Ivanhoe Story
Rebecca gleaned back at the shore, one last time. A slight twinge of fear entered her breast. Like Lot’s wife, she swore not to look back, and just like Lot’s wife, she broke that promise.…