Ancient and Beautiful and True
byGeorge R.R. Martin famously wrote in The Faces of Fantasy: Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli….
George R.R. Martin famously wrote in The Faces of Fantasy: Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli….
George MacDonald speaks of the true essence of a meaningful fairytale in his classic essay, “The Fantastic Imagination”: [A fairytale] cannot help having some…
Superheroes are often re-born in different incarnations. A writer will start the storyline afresh and a new version of the hero will be born….
On 30 January 1945, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote to his son Christopher about the ‘beauty’ of the Christian story. Regarding the ‘Eden “myth”’,…
Have you ever noticed how some stories make a deep impression on certain people yet fail to make a dent in others? You know…
A Review of Kevin Taylor and Giles Waller, eds., Christian Theology and Tragedy: Theologians, Tragic Literature and Tragic Theory (Ashgate, 2011). Christians are quick…
A Review of: Ker, Ian. G. K. Chesterton: A Biography. (Oxford, Oxford UP, 2011) In recent years, there has been an exciting revival of…