Inspiring Faith and Creativity & Exploring the Arts through a Spiritual Lens
One couldn’t think of two books more dissimilar than a work of French Gothic fiction such as Charles Dickins’s A Tale of Two Cities and Agatha Christie’s psychological, semi-autobiographical love story that ends badly, Unfinished…
What does a character need in order to be a convincing villain? Is it his words? His actions? How he evolves over the course of the story? In Disney’s animated film The Hunchback of Notre…
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of my favorite animated films from Disney. I love the story and the characters, showing how even the good guys can have flaws in them and how the…
Many history books collect dust on library shelves across the globe--and for good reason. Too many of these books instruct but fail to entertain or even engage readers. Simply put, there are many reasons books…
I am the kind of person who sometimes derives hope from unusual things. As a lover of stories, I often will comment that a certain twist seemed rather “hopeful” to me, even if most other…
I admit, I started reading His Dark Materials with a chip on my shoulder. One writer said Pullman was what “atheists would have been praying for, if atheists prayed.” He’s also been called the Anti-C.S.…
“What big teeth you have, Grandma!” I guess you know which tale that quotation comes from, but did you know that many folk and fairy tales are much more ancient than most people think? There’ll…
The following article looks at the origins of the Wild Hunt in folklore and some of the variations around Europe. A separate piece considers the idea of the black dogs that are linked to the…
The Stargate series is a fun, fairly family-friendly, excellently speculative run of sci-fi that hits the spot an almost all cylinders for many who appreciate high quality speculative fiction. It's a sci-fi series that uses…
[E]xamine its foundation, inspect its brickwork thoroughly. Is not (even the core of) the brick structure made of kiln-fired brick… Describing the durability and permanency of a brick wall, The Epic of Gilgamesh is the…
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