Some of the most profound observations and depictions in recent decades about the challenges of modernity, technology, and current affairs have been made through science fiction and dystopian novels, movies, and television shows. Star Trek, […]
Born in 1948, Michael O’Brien had a conversion experience at the age of 21, followed by several years of painting and writing. In 1996, Ignatius Press published Father Elijah: An Apocalypse, which became a best-seller […]
There is something about the concept of lighthouses, beacons of safety and warning that shine their light out over the dark and uncaring sea, that elicits a sort of solemn peace. This peace persists in […]
Michael D. O’Brien—iconographer, painter, novelist, critic—is the popular author of many best-selling novels, including Father Elijah, Strangers and Sojourners, Elijah in Jerusalem, The Father’s Tale, Eclipse of the Sun, Sophia House, The Lighthouse, and Island […]
Did you know the Catholic Church has officially ruled that we’re not to try and fix a date for the arrival of the antichrist? The decree was composed in 1516, at the Fifth Lateran Council, […]
Iconographer, painter, and writer Michael O’Brien has been a unique creative force for decades. He is the popular author of several best-selling novels, including Father Elijah, Elijah in Jerusalem, The Father’s Tale, Eclipse of the Sun, Sophia House, Theophilos, The Fool […]
Nathaniel Delaney, the protagonist of Michael D. O’Brien’s Plague Journal—the third novel in a sequence of seven entitled Children of the Last Days—is the editor of a small-town newspaper in British Columbia when the novel […]
Over the past century, most Western countries have produced great Catholic fiction writers. The UK may rightly pride itself on Evelyn Waugh, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, the U.S. on Walker Percy and Flannery O’Connor, […]
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