Inspiring Faith and Creativity & Exploring the Arts through a Spiritual Lens
In the 1980s, fantasy films were common but not always great. Many films got mixed reviews but have built an audience after the fact (Willow, Legend, Excalibur). Other films got polarizing reviews and are still…
’ With Netflix’s Sandman Season 1 wrapped and Season 2 reportedly starting production today, June 20, 2023, it’s a good time to look back at the show that had many comic book and fantasy fans…
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…
Director Norman Stone (Shadowlands) tributes Clive Staples Lewis with a new biopic, this time treating “the shape of [his] early years” until his fully-conscious re-conversion to Christianity past his teenager atheism. Originally a theatrical play,…
An ongoing debate in sci-fi and fantasy literature is how it handles “Might as Right,” the way heroes use force to get what they want. The Inklings’ contemporary T.H. White made this debate central to…
Tolkien. Directed by Dome Karukoski. Written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford. Chernin Entertainment and Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2019. Starring Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins. The Tolkien biopic will have the fortune of a cult:…
Tolkien’s theory on fairy stories and their purpose to promote elements of moral truth was known in academic circles since the 1940s. Tolkien himself acknowledged the fact that his Middle-earth novels were written as a…
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…
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…
By G. Connor Salter Is Charles Williams under-researched? Well, as one Williams expert said when I sought her feedback on an article about him, every Inkling except C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien has been under-researched.…
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