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Desert Power

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Beware the Great Quote

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Heads in the Heavens (or in Hell)

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By Zephram Foster

Why Christians Need Horror

November 30th, 2023|9 min read

By Susannah Black Roberts

The Birth of Comedy

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By Jessica Miskelly

Unreachable Rapture: Rescuing Romance

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By Derek King

Free Speech When No One is Listening

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By Noah Wing

Fruit of the Enlightenment

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By Jake Meador

Tolkien's Holy Fools

March 14th, 2016|6 min read

By Guest Writer

Detective Fiction and the Fun of Orthodoxy

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By Alastair Roberts

Twitter Is Like Elizabeth Bennet's Meryton

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What I Saw in the Shire--JRR Tolkien and the Love of Little Things

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By Matthew Lee Anderson

When the Story Stops Telling Itself: A New Letter from C.S. Lewis

August 27th, 2013|3 min read

By Guest Writer

A Reading Guide for 2013

July 19th, 2013|19 min read

By L. M. Sacasas

Home: An Essay on The Little Way of Ruthie Leming

June 4th, 2013|9 min read

By Chris Krycho

A distant, glorious echo: Tolkien and typology

February 21st, 2013|4 min read

By Chris Krycho

Jackson and Tolkien: Hollywood's Infatuation With Angst

February 14th, 2013|6 min read

By Brett McCracken

Ruminations on Joy

February 4th, 2013|7 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Law and Les Miserables, Revisited

January 8th, 2013|5 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Adults in the Body of Children: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Midsummer Night's Dream

December 20th, 2011|3 min read