Destiny must be integrated. Lawhead’s Avalon has a double problem with the numinous, with the spiritual sense it delivers to the reader. On the one hand, it falls short of what it promises, and that’s about the greatest sin a
Flashes of fulfilling its potential. Today I’d like to jump on the popular topic, only a few weeks late (probably), because that’s my usual course of action. Daily Wire, with whom I have no contentions at all, has put out
Shaping an effective, motivated minority. Let’s return to a concept in Dr. Gilfedder’s article in Islander VI: the need for a substantial class of cultural thought-shapers (character-lights), in light of the divisiveness of the developing ‘right wing’ intelligentsia-elite. On the
Burn It Down: What the Polls Say Young Americans Really Want should be on the shelf of every political figure and public-sphere thinker in America. (Just, please, read it first, before putting it on the shelf.) Barris and Lisec provide
Of all the bits of Avalon, the failure of the ‘main’ antagonist is at once the most surprising in retrospect and the clearest. Surprising, because I can remember how dangerous Morgian seemed, how appropriately threatening and powerful; clear, because when
Sauron, Saruman, and their fundamental (dis)similarity. From the pen of Carl Benjamin comes an article on the Scouring of the Shire, here in Islander VI. The main topic of the article will be getting a Creational Story article (as yet
Science is a crucial part of modern religiosity. By science, man proposes to conquer the world; by science, man proposes to achieve at least longevity and perhaps immortality; by science man claims to have dismissed the illusion of God. So
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
In practice, yes. Is revival prerequisite to a Christian government? The question is a significant divide in the world of Christian Nationalism. Stephen Wolfe argues that it isn’t, that revival is “not the only antecedent condition” to Christian laws, though
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