The King’s Good Servant
By Leah Fisher For the week of Thomas More's birthday, a story about his legacy and climactic choices. King Henry VIII pressed his palms firmly on the wide stone sill of the open window and…
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The Endless Knot of Richard II
By Giovanni Costabile “When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.” (John 6:15 KJV) In the year…
Writing a Robin Hood Novel: An Interview with Avellina Balestri
Fellowship & Fairydust, Editor-in-Chief Avellina Balestri has contributed many poems and other creative works to the magazine and other publications over the years. She broke new ground in 2022 by releasing her first novel, a…
A Poem for the Queen’s Funeral Day
As we pass the one-year anniversary of the funeral of Queen II of England, Avellina Balestri reflects on the monarch's passing. Memories of Britain return to me Day and night, they are woven into me…
So What Happens at A Lord of the Rings Party?
“Hey, if Sauron wants to watch TV, let him.” I watch the orange balloon with the giant eye scrawled over it in Expo marker bobble around, its eye facing the projector we are using to…
This is Not a Test
By Hannah Skipper The horse slid to a stop in front of a little house on the outskirts of the village and its rider baled off, already barking at the six-year-old who was collecting chicken…
Book Review: Night Operation by Owen Barfield
Night Operation: Classic Science Fiction from the ‘First and Last’ Inkling. Owen Barfield. Introduction by Jane Hipolito. Barfield Press, Second Edition, 2009. Not much has been written about Owen Barfield, despite being one of C.S.…
G.K. Chesterton and Anti-Semitism: Dale Ahlquist Interviews Robert Asch
Ahlquist: Please tell us about your background. Asch: I was born in London, England, on October 16, 1968, of first-generation Canadians, both of them opera singers. My ethnic background is Jewish and English (my maternal…
Clash of the Titans and Lord of the Rings: The Story of Peter Jackson and Ray Harryhausen
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…
The Forgotten Canonisation Cause of King James II
By Charles A. Coulombe My past remarks on the possibility of Charles I’s sanctity awoke something of a hornet’s nest. Not surprisingly, Ordinariate folk in particular were harshly divided, and a number of English-speaking cradle…