Tag: literature

Post-Apocalyptic Pagan Nationalism with a Christian Eye

A Conversation with Paul Kingsnorth:
“Orthodoxy, unlike much Western Christianity, has not bent with the times, so … we have to build communities, even in our own homes, and try to hold to those values. It’s hard. Building communities with others will be the key. But Christians now in the West are like those in the early centuries: we are minorities in a ‘secular’ world. We have to live as such.”

Faith and Fiction

Reading Javier Marías’ Berta Isla, I’d finally escaped my hospital bed and entered into a terrain where needles and IVs weren’t welcome.

Tolkien’s Secret

Tolkien’s tale reminds us that we ourselves are part of the Great Story.

In the Footsteps of The Bard

In Shakespeare’s Journey Home, Julian Dutton seeks to discover something new about the playwright by walking in his shoes.