At the Tomb
The morning started like any other except there was a darkness, a heaviness that had settled over the world. Before she knew him, the woman lived her life without joy or love. How could one live with…
Tag: Christianity
The Screwtape Paper: Reflections on Spiritual Warfare and the Battle Between Good and Evil
In most mainstream religious literature, the main characters are usually divinely appointed figures who overcome a temptation or trial. These characters are the heroes; however, what would the story look like from the opposite point…
The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved: Chapter 2
The cup. When had Jesus mentioned that before? It was that day, long ago, or so it seemed, when my brother and I had requested the place of honor in the Lord’s kingdom. You do…
On Beauty and Love: The Qualities Central to the Christian Experience
I had a wonderful childhood with parents who loved me. Sometime when I was a young teenager, I became aware of beauty: the sea, green pine trees rising up into a blue sky at the…
The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved: Chapter 1
I don’t understand. That was the only coherent thought I could grasp amid the tumult swirling in my mind. Seized with foreboding intuition, I knew that this was going to be a night unlike any…
The Pomegranate: An Original Fairy Tale
By Amanda Pizzolatto (alias Aurora Mandeville) Word Count: 652 Rating: G (suitable for all audiences) Summary: An original fairy tale in the mold of Andersen and Le Prince de Beaumont. Once upon a time, in…
Christos Voskrese!
For Tod *** The world is unusually quiet this dawn With fading stars withdrawing in good grace And drowsy, dreaming sunflowers, dewy-drooped, Their golden crowns all motionless and still, Stand patiently in their ordered garden…
Pascha Psalm
Hear the faint heralds, O soldiers, Calling distant above the far battleground. Long have you fought in night's deepest hour, Long have you struggled, sore-weary, with shadowy foes, But now the sky pales, and the…
Wooly’s Tale
Wooly was having a bad day. All day long people had been traveling to Bethlehem. Lots and lots of people. Wooly didn’t know why so many people were coming to Bethlehem all of a sudden,…
The Doctor’s Easter: A Doctor Who Story
It was Easter Sunday. Churches all over the world were crammed full of people celebrating the holiday, but the Doctor was not one of them. He sat in his TARDIS, twiddling his thumbs, waiting for…