Fairy Tales I commend to you a consideration of fairy tale and myth as bringers of truth, in an article by Kris Yee in the Imaginative Conservative, here. An excerpt: In his essay “On Fairy-Stories,” J.R.R Tolkien defends a certain type of escape, posing the reader with the question: “Why should a man be scorned if, […]
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Wedding Day
We’re drawn, all of us are drawn, to weddings. Why? The most obvious reason is that we love a love story. Another reason, though, is that we’re drawn to a picture of completion. Of a union that is complete and not temporary like what we experience here and now. We come to witness a new […]
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The Ashes As a society we are far past the general disaffection of Europe in the 20’s, following the Great War, when repudiation of religious sensibility was traceable to eye-opening atrocity joined to soul-deadening ideology. Now a similar disaffection from great questions exists, but seems to be more the result of a wide-scale spiritual listlessness. […]
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