A Tale of Two Dragons: Reflections on Corruption, Conviction, Grace, and Sacrament

At the conclusion of The Hobbit, the reader is treated to one of Tolkien’s hallmark codas — a short “extra ending” that follows the happily-ever-after. It has been years since […]

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Hercules and the Hydra

Hercules, the mightiest hero of Greek mythology, is perhaps most famous for his twelve labors. As the son of Zeus and a mortal woman, Hercules bore the wrath of Hera, […]

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Nella Sua Voluntade

“In His Will [is our peace].”[1] Nella Sua Voluntade is the title of a chapter in C.S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress. In Lewis’s writings, we find God’s peace and battling […]

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St. George and the Dragon: Inspiration and Identity

We can learn much about both a person and a country by the heroes they revere. One such illustration is the enduring legend of St. George and the dragon and […]

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant: The Dragon of False Memory

Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2016 novel The Buried Giant is a departure from his usual modern or dystopian settings and looks back in time to post-Arthurian Britain. It is classified as a […]

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Excerpt from The Chaos Spiral

This is an excerpt from Adam Brackin’s new Arthur Evans novel, THE CHAOS SPIRAL, coming soon from Wooton Major Publishing.   Helicopter or not, Arthur was using his lecturing voice […]

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Lewis’s Dragons and Materialism: A Reflection on Eustace Scrubb and Other Dragons

Dragons are known for many things, but their greed and disregard for human life make them iconic. If I were permitted to use dragon-like qualities as an adjective, I may […]

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Job and His Dragon

The Book of Job is one of those works that we tend to skirt around. It is as dark and murky as a dragon’s cave. Job is a good man […]

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The Cardinal

In most western cultures, people imagine dragons to be evil, demon-like make-believe beasts, living in dark, dangerous places. They think of large, muscular, flying, fire-breathing creatures with colorful, glittering scales […]

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Wangerin and Wyrm

In the beast fables The Book of the Dun Cow and The Book of Sorrows, Walter Wangerin, Jr. crafted a living bestiary complete with a great and cosmic evil, one […]

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