Tag: Dragon
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....
An Excerpt from Dragonslayer: Beginnings
CHAPTER ONE Hon awoke with a start. The sky outside his window was dark but the room was as bright...
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...
The Dragon’s Demise: Experiencing Apocalypse
My childhood did not include encountering dragons much that I can recall. I knew there were...
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...
Violence of Fire
The night was dark and still: starless, moonless, windless. If not for the groans of the shifting...
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...
The Forbidden Fountain
The wyr lifted his nose in delight. Sun-kissed water sparkled over his powerful head, down his...
Hercules and the Hydra
Hercules, the mightiest hero of Greek mythology, is perhaps most famous for his twelve labors. As...
Dragons in Our ‘Darkest Hours’: Slaying All Day the Lewis Way
“It is the magician’s bargain: give up our soul, get power in return But once our souls have been...
Grathugar
Hrósan stood in the ruin of the once impressive gate of Uvith. His polished armor reflected the...
The Cardinal
In most western cultures, people imagine dragons to be evil, demon-like make-believe beasts,...
Excerpt from The Chaos Spiral
This is an excerpt from Adam Brackin’s new Arthur Evans novel, THE CHAOS SPIRAL, coming soon from...
Desolation
For over a decade I have been an educator in one fashion or another. My teaching has ranged from...
Dragonish Thoughts in Our Hearts: Dragons as Mirrors of the Human
“Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; / If we perish in the seeking, why,...
The Armor of the Dragon: Chapter One: What Grew in the Garden
In a small town in Japan, the Chinese Dragon caught the people that lived there. It invisibly...
Sneaking Past Watchful Dragons: Imaginative Apologetics and the Games We Play
“He who changes the sports is secretly changing the manners of the young.” -Plato, The Laws, Book...
