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Oct 6, 2020
3 min

C.S. Lewis on Nature and Reasoning about God

In the Introduction to The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis tells us the reasons he used to give when people would ask him why he was an athei...

May 20, 2020
1 min

One Wine is Left in the Broken Bowl

What is left for the cold grey soul That moans like a wounded dove? One wine is left in the broken bowl 'Tis, to love, and love, and love...

May 20, 2020
1 min

What Forms Will Your Loves Call Forth?

Here is an audio file of some commentary I gave on Charles Williams' novel, The Place of the Lion. I originally recorded this for my stud...

Apr 28, 2020
11 min

The Two Gandalfs

The title of this essay is not quite as apt as the titles of my earlier essays on the two Aragorns, Faramirs, and Treebeards. This is bec...

Apr 27, 2020
11 min

The Two Aragorns

Last week I posted essays on Treebeard and Faramir, two noble characters from the Lord of the Rings whom, I argued, Peter Jackson "unforg...

Apr 27, 2020
5 min

Reading Religion in Lord of the Rings

The Ainulindalë is the name of the first part of Silmarillion. It is the creation story of Tolkien's Middle Earth, and demonstrates that ...

Apr 21, 2020
5 min

The Two Faramirs

In an earlier post I compared the character Treebeard as we meet him in The Lord of the Rings, with movie-Treebeard as we meet him in Pet...

Apr 20, 2020
4 min

The Two Treebeards

For those whose first love is Tolkien's original novel, some of the changes made in Peter Jackson's films are bound to be disappointing. ...

Feb 12, 2019
3 min

The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher in Defense of Civilization

Mr. Jeremy Fisher is a toad with a diverse set of friends which includes Mr. Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise and Sir Isaac Newton, who is a new...

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