The Lifespan of a Garden
A spring birth comes with dangers for seedlings. Rain may fall with gentle nourishment or cold may come suddenly, like a bomb, with ash-frost scattered across the throats and young limbs of green seedlings coming…
Author: Fellowship & Fairydust
Inspiring faith and creativity & exploring the arts through a spiritual lens
Compare with Me: Themes in the Poetry of Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet is considered a Puritan writer, if nothing else because of the place where she lived and the period when she produced her poetry. But a reader unacquainted with the sequences may ask whether…
The Young are Restless
It must have been the thick blanket of fog that clung to everything in the jungle, refusing to rise into the clouds and evaporate no matter how hot the sun’s golden rays beat down, that…
The Fox and the Lyre
O'er the bright hills and southern green He laid warmly in cover'd grassy mows Play'd tune amongst the trees The beasts of woodland crowds came to play Orpheus, his song of high muses Made…
Pilgrimage to a Small Island: An American Britophile’s Reflection
You are my first love, tossed by the sea of my soul. My blood has run with the timeless murmur of your rivers, and I have felt the stillness of your history stir a flame…
Hope in Fortitude
Bronwe athan Harthad. Hope beyond endurance. A fortitude that took him to places no one else dared to go, carrying something that many had succumbed to, even him. Master Baggins, Frodo of the Nine Fingers…
Life After Narnia
Lucy avoided mirrors after she had come back from her last trip to Narnia. She avoided Susan too, although she hated herself for it. Susan had come home from America with stories of skyscrapers, bars…
The Role of Catholic Recusant Women in Early Modern England
Abstract: This article is a study of some aspects of the role of Catholic women in sixteenth-century England. It assesses how the Catholic faith was passed on to children and the wider family. It looks…
The Coronation
By Justin Newland “A joyous, colorful procession headed towards the entrance of the Abbey. At its head, members of the clergy wafted incense into the chill midday air. A cleric dressed in a bishopric hat…