Tag: tradition

How Should We Read Tolkien?

A new book considers a postmodern Tolkien, but it circles back to the obvious and enduring: love and friendship.

Midwinter Warmth

Chilcott’s Christmas Oratorio seems old and yet new, traditional and yet contemporary.

Tradition and Human Flourishing

A blind adherence to old forms is the path to sterility and death, we must instead act as emissaries of the living flame we possess by virtue of our singular relationship with its past.