Category: The Imaginative Harvest of Holly Ordway
Poetry as Prayer, Imagination the Spark to Worship and Service: Ordway’s Review of Gerard Manley Hopkins in Word on Fire’s Ignatian Collection
“The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook...
Drawing the Drawing Out of Me
Life surprises come in all shapes and colors. In my case, they also came in lines, pencil lines. I...
Echo and Narcissus – A Modern Reimagining
A Note on Holly Ordway and Fiction When I enrolled as a student at Houston Baptist University to...
Lost and Found
A Parable Retold[1] Maddie leaned against the kitchen counter and sipped her coffee: black as the...
Dr. Ordway’s Visual Guide to Paragraph Structure
While it may not be among her best known works — yet — Dr. Ordway’s “Visual Guide to Paragraph...
Learning Writing at Writespace
I met Dr. Holly Ordway and Writespace on the same day, at HBU’s 2015 Spring Writers’ Conference. I...
Carry On
Like bells of Rivendell ring (They sing! They sing!), Her song, it summons hungry hearts to hear....
The Challenge of “The Republic”
Plato banned the Poets from his state, ……Yet said, if one could make a sound defense ...
A Case of Mistaken Identity
“I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of...
Some Real Magic: Taliessin Lectureth in the School of the Poets
Within the cadences of human speech ……Attentive listeners can sometimes hear ...
An Interview with Holly Ordway
In order to detail Tolkien’s modern literary influences, you had to read as many of the books...
“Maps,” My Map
During the Apologetics Research and Writing class I took and Dr. Ordway taught, the class was...
Unveiling Reality Through The Imagination
In her spiritual memoir, Not God’s Type, Dr. Holly Ordway explains the process of her conversion...
Ordway’s Myth-Busting Research: Tolkien’s Modern Reading (A Review)
In her monumental study, Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages (TMR), Holly Ordway debunks the popular misconception that J.R.R. Tolkien was an anti-modern medievalist whose inspiration came from the...
Contrary Winds: Tolkien’s Priority of Faith and Family as Presented in Tolkien’s Modern Reading
It is difficult to be immersed in a world of contrary winds and hold steady to one’s course. And...
Middle-earth and the Middle Ages
Arguably the most important literary influence on The Lord of the Rings, the Anglo-Saxon epic,...
Gandalf, The Prophetic Mentor
Near the beginning of the Third Age of Middle-earth, the Valar commissioned the Istari as...
A Passage to Something Better
He [Tolkien] folded into his work something fresh and unexpected, something vital and important: a...
Review: Tolkien’s Modern Reading
Long before the printing press, Solomon complained that “of the making of many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.”[1] What would Solomon say in the day of blogs and self-publishing? Yet despite...
