No Room at the Inn: A Star Trek Story
By Laurie Howard Word Count: 4039 Rating: G Summary: Captain Kirk, Spock and Dr. McCoy plan to spend Christmas break with each other on a planet. The weather turns bad and plans change. No one…
Author: Fellowship & Fairydust
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Christmas is in My Grasp
Editor's Note: This is a Christmas reflection from the upcoming book, Fiercely Loved: Confessions of an AIDS Widow. *** As I am writing this, Christmas songs are playing on the radio, the tree lot is…
All is Growing and Expanding: The Holiday Season as a Triumph of Light over Darkness
Embracing the Christmas season in a spiritually meaningful way often proves to be difficult in the face of near incessant commercial distraction. Too much stuff and too little substance clogs our senses and can give…
The Sleeping Princess
By Amanda Pizzolatto Word Count: 6304 Rating: PG (for some dangerous scenarios) Summary: A young peasant girl meets a handsome prince and learns a secret about her family. “Roselle, could you go get some juniberries…
Abbey St. Joseph – Vespers
By Mack Hill Word Count: 80 Rating: G Summary: Prayers at the end of the day. Dusk rises from the dark and dewy grass And sweet bells sing to end the workman’s day, To call…
Come Back Home Again: Thoughts on the Song “From Now On” in The Greatest Showman
In the musical film The Greatest Showman, there is a moment in which P.T. Barnum has lost everything – his circus, his fortune, his family. Feeling betrayed and neglected, his wife Charity and two daughters…
Titanic: The Sinking Titan
By Amanda Pizzolatto Word Count: 2472 Rating: PG Summary: Jack and Rapunzel have to fight to get off the Titanic before they go down with it. She had never been so happy as she had…
Open the Gates for Me: A Look at the Life and Times of C.S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis was a British-Irish writer who is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia series as well as his Christian apologetics such as The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity.…
Hymn to the Winter Hunt
When cold winds from the northwest blow, When moonlight casts its silver glow, When the dark skies threaten snow ‘Tis then I hear their call. It echoes through dark forest and fen, A droning horn—and…
Titanic: The Unsinkable Merida Haddock
By Amanda Pizzolatto Word Count: 2173 Rating: PG Summary: Merida is on her way back home on the Titanic to an estranged marriage, but an accident makes the couple realize just how much they truly…