Category: Culture
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title reveal!
I am pleased to reveal the title for my upcoming release.
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Keeping Christmas
The Ghosts of Christmas taught Scrooge to keep Christmas with charity; they also taught him to keep it with joy.
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Patience Obtains
For the past few years, I have had a quotation from St. Teresa taped on my desk: Patience obtains all things. I took it in the way of a hope rather than a promise. Now, with the publication of The Time Door, I have been thinking about patience, and what it obtains. I began work…
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The Most Dangerous Words
The most dangerous words are the ones that you think you understand. This is a trap of old books, where familiar words often hold strange meanings.
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“God Knows”
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown”.
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The Quality of Love
When King Lear begins to realize the truth of his daughters’ love, he exclaims, “Ingratitude! Thou marble-hearted fiend!” He never understood the quality of his own love.
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The Feast of Hallowmas
You can tell the strange disconnect between the holidays of October 31 and November 1 by the fact that the first is popularly called Halloween, and the second All Saints’ Day. Hallowmas and All Hallows’ Day are among the other names for the church feast of November 1, and from these names, of course, Halloween…
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The Principal Point
In a sign that nature is healing, Disney is once again blitzing the world with Marvel content. Disney released the trailers (and dates!) for its Marvel shows that have been coming and coming and may, in 2021, actually arrive. I will focus our attention particularly on the Loki series, it being an incontrovertible truth of…