Beowulf is a poem famous for, among other distinctions, having no faithful film adaptations—famous, also, for its connection to J.R.R. Tolkien, who both revolutionized the Beowulf scholarship of his day and incorporated copious influences from it into his little-known The
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was far from a Christian. Yet The Second Coming expresses viciously and poignantly a point crucial for Christians to understand about the world we find ourselves in. Though hell-bound, Yeats was a poet of great skill.
Nowadays we have more cultural commentators than tubes of toothpaste, and too often the toothpaste is worth more of your time. The pressing question, if we want to stay up-to-date, is of how we evaluate these options and find the
‘Is it a sin to send my kids to public school?’ The question has been answered with a resounding ‘Yes’ by some and with a qualified ‘No’ by others. But, ask we again, ‘Is it a sin for me to
Every army is geared towards a purpose, a set of goals. In theory, every army shares one basic goal: defense of national territory (actually, some serve to defend a regime against itself or to generate coups, e.g. Praetorian Guard, but….).
The basic theory of the Epstein file and similar operations (whether you think they’re intelligence or not) seems at first glance to be blackmail. Get the big names and the big money to do really heinous deeds (though, note, they’ve
Central to Christian anthropology stands the question of man’s basic nature. Is he spirit? Is he flesh? Is he both? Is he more truly one or the other? The answer to this question will echo across theology, from Christology and
I’ve no familiarity at all with the work of Wyndham Lewis, this article’s partial subject, or Dr. Gilfedder, its author, and my knowledge of Shakespeare is small. men against darkness, published in Islander #5 doubtless possesses certain interests for the
Killing children is naturally a topic people have strong feelings about. At large in our culture, this debate plays out between two diametric opposites. On the one side, those who advocate killing children in order to preserve a more pleasurable
So, you just got effective control of a nation’s government, by means we’ll not go into here (very inconvenient, the superpowers stopping as soon as you got this far). Your goal, naturally, is to extend your power, but no longer