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Robert Hugh Benson, literary converts, and the Church in a dystopian age

November 13, 2020 Joseph Pearce 4

In this interview with Jan Franczak for the Polish Journal, PCh24, biographer and literary critic Joseph Pearce discusses the importance of the convert writer, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), as well as other great literary converts. […]

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Why The Lord of the Rings is a masterpiece

June 27, 2018 Thomas M. Doran 4

At its core, J.R.R. Tolkien’s story is nothing like its fantasy clones, because its roots go much deeper, they drink from eternal truths, without offering […]

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Joyce Kilmer, John Paul II, and the artistic vocation

June 15, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 4

All who reverence the Bible, but especially Christians, ought to have a deep appreciation for words and for those who take words and give them […]

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Going “further up and further in” to Narnia with Joseph Pearce

May 8, 2018 Paul Senz 1

“In reading The Chronicles of Narnia,” says the prolific biographer and critic, “we find ourselves in the presence of great and necessary truths.” […]

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Joseph Pearce reflects on his “dramatic verse tapestry” about two “war poets”

July 25, 2017 Paul Senz 2

For the past two decades, since the publication of Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Pearce has established himself as a leading biographer of Christian novelists, poets, authors, and intellectuals. He has written […]

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