A Phoenix
The resurgence of locally-sourced food and local farmers’ markets betrays a world that aches to reconnect with the land and a more wholesome way of life. Sadly, our oppressively disordered modern culture fails to...
Tagged: Literature
Disconcertingly Inspiring
Jeannie Ewing writes a beautifully simple perspective on existence for Integrated Catholic Life, Flourishing and Dying. “Each day, we are called to die in some way. It’s our yes to God’s beckoning when Jesus...
Yielding Place to the New
Today we invite you to take some moments to first enjoy a country lad’s letter of appreciation as the now grown-up man recalls how good an experience it was for him to be placed...
Mirror, Mirror
“…one of the most important facets of fairytales is that they hold up a ‘Mirror of scorn and pity towards Man.’” Joseph Pearce’s How J.R.R. Tolkien Used Middle-Earth to Reveal Who We Are from...
The Catholic Home, Episode 19: Children’s Literature: Feeding Their Growing Little Minds (Part 2)
Children’s Literature: Feeding their growing little minds. Part 2 What pure joy there is for a child’s eyes to be opened to a new world through literature! They can travel to distant lands or...
The Catholic Home, Episode 18: Children’s Literature: Feeding Their Growing Little Minds (Part 1)
Children’s Literature: Feeding their growing little minds. Part 1 The reading of interesting and wholesome books can be a gateway into an enchanting new world, all the while instilling in youth a proper morality...
Literature and Secret Pride
This week we begin with a bit of classic poetry: The Art of Manliness presents Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the post Manvotional: The Ladder of St. Augustine. “Standing on what too long we bore...
Heroes, Angels, and Modernist “Mercy”
Classic and enduring stories and histories of heroic journeys, including that of Our Lord, can generally be divided into three parts – the departure, the initiation (the trial or challenge), and the return home....
Horses and Great Silence
“They are difficult horses for mortal men to manage…” Great Books and Horses by Glenn Arbery from The Imaginative Conservative points out how one cannot fully appreciate many of the classics unless one has...
The Catholic Home, Episode 17: The Man Who Was Chesterton (Part 2)
Who was the man who wrote the classic apologetic ”Orthodoxy” and the world-renowned Fr. Brown series? This incredibly prolific writer and complete thinker did not leave any subject untouched. Surrounded by the errors of...
