Tag: Imagination
We Have Sinned and Grown Old: A Reflection on the Imagination and Motherhood
“I don’t want to tell you. It’s embarrassing.” My nine-year-old son uttered these words recently...
Literary Apologetics: A Spell for the Refreshment of Spirit
“I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a storyteller.”[1] ~...
Shelter in the Vine: An Unexpected Sanctuary
“He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will...
Imagining Morality: Alasdair Macintyre’s Virtue Theory & Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
“Apart from many important aesthetic reasons, I think that we read novels because they give us the...
Phantastes: Enchanting Beauty and Sacrificial Love
“My spirits rose as I went deeper into the forest … I found cheerfulness to be like life itself –...
Old MacDonald’s Dish: A Hearty Serving of George MacDonald’s Thoughts on the Imagination and its Relevance to Contemporary Apologetics
The writer of Psalm 42 is “in despair” and cries out to the Lord in the midst of his tribulation,...
The Imaginative Strategy of Boethius
Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy, though less well known today, was extremely...
An Interview with Holly Ordway
In order to detail Tolkien’s modern literary influences, you had to read as many of the books...
“Maps,” My Map
During the Apologetics Research and Writing class I took and Dr. Ordway taught, the class was...
Cathedral Cosmos: A Glance Heavenward into the Medieval Model
My appetite for exploring England could not have been better whetted than by soaking up the smooth...
Unforsaken: Fantasy, Providence, and the Silence of God
With the rising popularity of fantasy within Western culture, examples of the genre (both skillful...
Imagining Conversion
It is difficult, if not impossible, to act without first imagining what one is about to do. And it...
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...
Sanctuaries for the Suffering: Trauma and Imagination in Apologetics
A sanctuary is a physical space that is sacred and used for worship. Sanctuaries have...
Some Real Magic: Taliessin Lectureth in the School of the Poets
Within the cadences of human speech ……Attentive listeners can sometimes hear ...
Unveiling Reality Through The Imagination
In her spiritual memoir, Not God’s Type, Dr. Holly Ordway explains the process of her conversion...
The Imagination: Its Function and its Culture
Cultivate the mere intellect as you may, it will never reduce the passions: the imagination,...
Awakening Joy
It may occur quite unconsciously, but every author weaves his truest beliefs into the words he...
Re-Enchanting the World: A Tale of Two Paradigms
This essay has three goals: to convince the reader that we inhabitants of late modernity suffer...
Reviving a Sacred Imagination
In the fourth chapter of Proverbs, Solomon instructs his son to diligently tend his own soul: My...
