Niggle’s Discovery
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The short story “Leaf by Niggle” is Tolkien’s most sustained autobiographical work reflecting on his relationship with…
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What Then Must We Do: Remembering David L. Schindler
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November 16, 2022 marked the passing of David L. Schindler, Dean Emeritus and Edouard Cardinal Gagnon Professor…
Mistrust of the Inanimate
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Ruth Ozeki’s novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, is a conundrum—at turns enraging, confusing, impenetrable,…
The Battle of Good and Evil in Stranger Things, Season Four
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Last summer, Netflix released the fourth and penultimate season of the sci-fi horror drama Stranger Things to…
T.S. Eliot and Temporal Eternity
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Time rules over man. It propels him through life, which is short when compared with eternity, and ushers him through…
An America Without Mary
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Will Arbery’s 2019 play Heroes of the Fourth Turning received significant critical attention after its release, with…
Poems for Christmas Day
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Stargazer in Bethlehem
You looked back at meIn the split second before heartbreakClaimed what remains of my creation
At…
Tolkien, Man of Faith
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Modernity has flattened and fractured our cultural understanding of the human person. Dr. Holly Ordway, Word on Fire’s…
Barbie and Life in the Unity of Life and Death
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Girls have always had dolls. These dolls were models of little girls. Playing with dolls, real girls would play at…
Invitation to the Feast
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It is the fall of 1947 on the ruggedly picturesque Cornwall coast, and Reverend Bott must write a sermon. A normal part…