August: A Poem Duology
August is a Yellow Flame "That August was like a yellow flame" - Anna Ahkmatova, 1917 / Anno Domini MCMXXI / III. The Voice of Memory This August is indeed like a yellow flame Death writhes…
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Where Christian Fantasy Started: Remembering Robert Siegel
Robert “Bob” Harold Siegel (1939-2012) is one of the most underrated Christian writers of recent years. As a poet, he wrote about nature with an intimacy that few have matched. One reviewer observed, “There is…
A Summer Memory
Let me tell you what beauty is. It’s April rains and May flowers. It’s a song on the radio that brings back wonderful memories. It’s in the pages of well-worn books. It’s the dawn of…
Movie Review: The Hiding Place (2023)
World War II stories are always popular, but some are more iconic than others. The Hiding Place, Dutch watchmaker Corrie ten Boom’s 1971 autobiography of how her family helped smuggle approximately 800 Jews, is one…
Hope Bolinger Interview: Fantasy, Superheroes and Everything Else
How many books Hope Bolinger has written is hard to say. She reports that she’s written books in anywhere from five to 45 days. As of this writing, her website states that “twenty-six of her…
The Ekron Initiative: Memo 5
Part of an ongoing web serial perhaps inspired by The Screwtape Letters. Unless otherwise noted, “the Ex-CEO” refers to God, “the opposition” to the side of the angels, and so on. Read the previous installment here.…
Christmas Shopping for Cormac McCarthy: A Reading Adventure
On November 28, I scoured a soon-to-be-closing bookstore for a copy of Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. My second book club (yes, I attend multiple book clubs) had chosen it for our January meeting, so…
What a Waste!
The sun weighed on them hot as their troop ventured back towards Bethany after an exhausting day in Jerusalem. The dust kicked up from the road as they walked back to the house of their…
Inklings and Shapeshifters: Charles Williams’ Theology and Paul Schrader’s Cat People
Talking about Charles Williams and Paul Schrader together doesn’t sound like a natural combination. One of these men was a member of the Inklings, a writer whose work included supernatural thrillers, offbeat lay theology, and…
Thomism and Its Place in the Catholic Church: A Historical Brief
Introduction It is not easy to define Thomism as an unequivocal school of thought because the various thinkers, who advocated it throughout its 700-year history, never identified themselves as members of a unified movement. Likewise,…