Book Review: Cultural Apologetics by Paul Gould

In a little article titled “A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls,” G.K. Chesterton censures the modern intelligentsia because they “rate the gutter-boys for their immorality at the very same time that […]

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Orwell’s 1984, 70 Years Later: Are We the Dead?

Imagine a rather thin, middle-aged Caucasian man, his face wearied with life. Imagine the man’s head is crowned with a dark mop of hair — shaved on the side, but […]

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This Captain, Buffeted

Chapter One of Griff Harrows: Told You No Lie   ‘A fugitive, this captain, buffeted’ Virgil, The Aeneid   The old man didn’t know. Griff rolled away from the screen […]

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Bohemian Rocketmen in a Yellow Submarine: Dystopia, Eutopia and the Music of Belonging

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. Leonhard Cohen, Anthem (Selected Poems, […]

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The Failure of Strength: A Study in Christian Resistance

If there is one clear point of dystopian stories, it is that the dystopia must be resisted. A well-crafted dystopian story presents that resistance as tenuous and difficult. One of […]

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A Christian Reply to Ayn Rand’s Anthem

Ironically, dystopian fiction can be an escape into the very thing that readers seek to escape from. The stress of oppressed characters relates to the real world, and tales of […]

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The Truth Will Set You Free

“The Truth Will Set You Free” is a free-verse poem that explores the dystopian elements underlying contemporary Western society. We live in a strange time that seems to be defined […]

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Light

Fifty years after the Rebirth, the woods in what had been Maine were quiet. The morning sunlight shone through the soft green leaves and melted the cobwebs. The silver scales […]

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The Silent Providence of Pain

About a half century ago the Japanese man, Shusaku Endo, wrote the novel, 沈黙 (Chinmoku). It was soon translated into English under the title, Silence, captivating a large number of […]

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C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L’Engle, and The Handmaid’s Tale: A Reflection on Art as Poiema

“The first demand any work of art makes on us is surrender.  Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.”  C.S. Lewis[1] I was recently reminded of C.S. Lewis’s […]

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