Month: October 2017
The Ascetic
Margaret Delashmit, Guest Contributor (Written after reading Herman Hesse’s The Steppenwolf) I tasted life once Sipped its nectar from golden goblet held by human hand Laughed when bubbles ticked my […]
C.S. Lewis, Fantasy Tales, and How to Say Best What’s to be Said
Jessica Mau C.S. Lewis explains in his essay “Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say What’s Best to be Said” how writing a story starts and why he chose to write fairy […]
Saved by the Dog Who Bit You: The Life of the Rhetorical Figure
David Stubblefield, Senior Editor “Like a dog!, he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.” (Franz Kafka, from The Trial) Why do people find metaphors, […]
Sharon
Margaret Delashmit, Guest Contributor Trailing streams of glory you arrived— Captured our hearts with your helpless kitten cry Perfection seldom comes without flaws So with you— Yet like the oyster You […]
007 Dalton and License to Kill
Marshall Tankersley, Student Editor What do you hate? Everyone, including Christians, hates something. Is it another person? An event? An action? Evil? Some individuals hate in wrong ways, in ways […]
A Light in the Darkness
Melissa Woodland In Jennifer Niven’s young adult book, All the Bright Places, you can expect to find two teenagers who are struggling with grief, depression, suicide, and finding their way […]
Gran Torino, Cruising to Classic Status
Christian Luna Clint Eastwood’s film Gran Torino is directed by the acclaimed actor and director, and Eastwood also stars as the movie’s protagonist. The film was released on January 9, […]
C.S. Lewis, Sci-Fi, and Displaced Persons
Sadie Wyant Though C.S. Lewis wrote 3 acclaimed science fiction novels, he is not always identified with the sci-fi genre. Aside from his fiction, Lewis also provided some useful criticism […]
The Third Man Revisited
Marshall Tankersley, Student Editor How one grows is as important to a life as actions. A man can do one thing in his life, but how he reacts to it […]
A Chorus of Echoes
Sadie Wyant Echo, a young adult novel written by Pam Muñoz Ryan, is a tale about lives woven together through time and distance. The 587-page book is broken up into […]
Be part of this world…
Andrew Collins The 2007 film, No Country For Old Men, was written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The movie is based on the novel by award-winning author Cormac […]
C.S. Lewis and Rereading Stories
Priscilla Collins In his essay “On Stories,” C.S. Lewis dissects the purpose of a story. Lewis argues that a good story must do more than simply tell of a series […]