What is Cultural Apologetics?
What is cultural “apologetics”? It is a question that has become a topic of heightened interest recently in light of the new Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, and one I […]
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Tag: Holly Ordway
An Interview with Holly Ordway
In order to detail Tolkien’s modern literary influences, you had to read as many of the books Tolkien had read as you could — which means first you had to […]
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A Passage to Something Better
He [Tolkien] folded into his work something fresh and unexpected, something vital and important: a tear drop from his own flesh and blood. From one perspective, the change was minor, […]
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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 […]
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Unveiling Reality Through The Imagination
In her spiritual memoir, Not God’s Type, Dr. Holly Ordway explains the process of her conversion from atheism to Catholicism. Primarily through the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, […]
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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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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 Structure” garners instant recognition and nostalgic nods of appreciation from alumni […]
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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 God.” -T.S. Eliot, “East Coker” I fancied myself chased […]
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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 discovered I was good at drawing, when I was thirty five […]
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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 yet, this is precisely what J.R.R. Tolkien did. Although he is […]
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