It’s always interesting when an historian puts his pen to telling us about another historian. And the current effort is no exception. First off, however, let’s get some unpleasant material out of the way. The […]
Stephen K. Ray was raised in a devout and loving Baptist family. His father was a deacon and Bible teacher, and Stephen was very involved in his local Baptist church as a teacher of biblical […]
Having discovered the journal The European Conservative last year, I started noticing articles by Dr. Mark Dooley, one of the contributing editors. An Irish philosopher and journalist, Dooley closely collaborated with the late influential philosopher […]
G. K. Chesterton, musing over the Brontës in his monumental work The Victorian Age in Literature, reflected: There is really, in a narrow but intense way, a tradition of Emily Brontë: as there is a […]
“I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size,” wrote J. R. R. Tolkien. “I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).… I like, and […]
Tour guide K. Troy has been leading pilgrim groups to Catholic shrines across Europe for over twenty-five years now. And he has many stories to tell. His book In the Stars the Glory of His […]
The late Fr. James Schall, S.J., was a master essayist, in the grand tradition of English letters. In the introduction to one of his collections of essays, Fr. Schall remarks: The chapters in this book […]
The role that art (and beauty in general) can play in evangelization, and in our own spiritual lives, is a matter of some debate. There is also a common misconception that beautiful art is a […]
“Brace yourself!” reads one of those memes going around Catholic Twitter that shows the actor Sean Bean as Tolkien’s Boromir looking into the wind. It continues, “Bad Mary Magdalene takes are coming.” Though I prepared […]
The world is not a perfect place, by any stretch of the imagination. Rampant secularism, endless noise, social unrest, political upheaval, and cultural strife mark our times, perhaps more than ever before. It is apparent […]
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