Arthur in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: The Search for Regeneration

T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) is rich in Arthurian imagery as it explores the dimensions of spiritual exhaustion in which Eliot’s generation found itself in the wake of “The […]

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Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Its Holy Knight, Red Crosse

Spenser’s The Faerie Queene tells a tale on many levels, including an ode to Queen Elizabeth (after whom the poem is titled) and an allegorical critique of the Roman Catholic […]

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Medieval Virtue: Arthur and Sir Gawain, Women and Men

The accounts of King Arthur, as recorded by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace and Layamon, and the tale of Sir Gawain, as told in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, exhibit […]

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An Elementary History of Deduction

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.[1] – Sherlock Holmes, “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier”   The art of […]

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Mystery and Meaning in the Multiverse: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Here, all we get are a few specks of time where any of this actually makes sense, then I will cherish these few specks of time.      — Evelyn Wang, […]

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Joy as Life’s Fuel and Safeguard: Mentalist, Jane Austen, Where the Crawdads Sing, Top Gun: Maverick, Thor: Love and Thunder

When you’re dead, you’re dead, and until then . . . there’s ice cream. — Patrick Jane, The Mentalist Joy was not a deception. Its visitations were rather the moments […]

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Saints, Suffering, and Sanctuaries from Around the World: Japan, Korea, and China

Stories of heroic saints and inspiring sanctuaries abound in the history of the church of Jesus Christ. It is easy and natural to think of the early church in the […]

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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 foil”[1] -Gerard Manley Hopkins, God’s Grandeur   Holly Ordway shows her commitment to […]

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Till They Have Faces: Lewis’s Psyche Meets the Modern Helen of Troy and Circe

I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the […]

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Once a Prince or Princess: MacDonald’s Moral Superheroines and Heroes in the Princess Tales

Of all the stories I have read, including even all the novels of this same novelist, [The Princess and the Goblin] remains the most real, the most realistic . . […]

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