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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The significance of the order: ‘All hands on deck!’ - Paul JohnsonThe importance of the hand is the real link between the workman, the artist and the intellectual. Read more... The Sixth Coming of Rocky - John J. MillerStallone returns to his religious roots. Read more... The Story of Babar and Kin - Meghan Cox GurdonThe characters in classic children's books have such an emotional permanence that it's easy to forget that once upon a time, before you met them in the nursery, and longer still before you introduced them to your own children, they consisted only of an idea in someone's mind and perhaps a few doodles on a spare bit of paper. Read more... The Strange Shipwreck of Robinson Crusoe - PHILIP ZALESKIThe crucial issue and the book's great gift is Defoe's account of how a civilization is born. What transforms chaos into cosmos, survivalism into society, is obedience to God. Read more... The Tree of Life - Steven D. GreydanusIs Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life a pretentious mess or a profound masterpiece? Read more... The trouble with Sex and the City's fairy tale ending - Colleen Carroll CampbellThe blockbuster box-office debut last weekend of the Sex and the City movie -- a follow-up to the TV series of the same name -- reinforced the show's reputation as a cultural phenomenon. Read more... The Trouble With Harry - John Andrew MurrayBy disassociating magic and supernatural evil, it becomes possible to portray occult practices as "good" and "healthy," contrary to the scriptural declaration that such practices are "detestable to the Lord." Read more... The Twelve Men - G.K. ChestertonThe other day, while I was meditating on morality and Mr. H. Pitt, I was, so to speak, snatched up and put into a jury box to try people. The snatching took some weeks, but to me it seemed something sudden and arbitrary. I was put into this box because I lived in Battersea, and my name began with a C. Read more... The Untouchables - Antoni CimolinoWhy it's blasphemous to alter Shakespeare's words for a modern audience. Read more... The Wonderful Adventures of Tintin - Frederica Mathewes-GreenSkeptics can rest easy: This film does Tintin justice. Read more... The world's oldest Bible now available online - Pamela LutherAs of today, the earliest copy of the Bible is now online. Read more... The World’s Story vs. A Fable for Our Age - Tim DrakeEvery age has its story — a story that gets read and re-read, told and re-told ; a story that helps to define the age. Read more... There's a Stranger in Your House - JERRY MCGUIREThere's a stranger in your house. On average, every day that stranger talks to our children more than most parents do in a month. We allow the stranger to teach them things and use language for which we would have a real stranger arrested. Read more... There’s plenty of goodies yet in the English word-factory - Paul JohnsonThe most overused word this autumn has been 'crunch' in the sense of 'crisis', as in the phrase 'credit crunch'. Read more... Time raises Longfellow, like Lazarus, from the dead - Paul JohnsonIt is good news that Longfellow is at last enjoying a revival, happily coinciding this year with the 200th anniversary of his birth. He is far and away America’s greatest poet. Read more... Tolkien and Rowling: Common Ground? - Michael O'Brien/Sandra MieselMichael O’Brien’s sweeping and popular critique of the Harry Potter books is criticized in a letter to Catholic World Report by Sandra Miesel of Indianapolis. O’Brien’s response follows. Read more... Tongue-twister Shakespeare - Seth LererA new book traces the origins of English—from the Anglo-Saxons to Eminem. In the excerpt below, the author explains how Shakespeare stretched English to its outer limits. Read more... Toward the First Great Renaissance Carolingian and Romanesque Church Architecture - Michael RoseCharlemagne, King of the Franks, regarded the restoration of the West as both a spiritual and a political duty. He set about to revive the traditions of ancient Rome in light of the universal call to recognize Christ as the center of the new emerging culture. This, the beginning of the first great Renaissance in Christendom, found expression in architecture. Read more... Transport: Seeing With a Myriad of Eyes - William Kilpatrick, Gregory Wolfe, and Suzanne M. WolfeLike travel books broaden the mind. They give us a bigger picture of the world and its inhabitants. One result is that we become better judges of character. By meeting certain character types in stories we are better prepared for the day when we will meet that type in person. Read more... Trust Your Feelings…Darth? - Terry MattinglyNo wonder Anakin Skywalker seems so confused. Every time the Jedi apprentice turns around, a spiritual master tells him to trust his feelings, search his feelings or follow his feelings. Trouble is, the young super-warrior in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones is a tornado of feelings. He feels love. He feels hate, ambition, desire, frustration, fear and fury. Read more... Truth and Beauty - Father George William RutlerArt is not merely an option for the Christian. Read more... Turning visitors into pilgrims - Father Raymond J. de SouzaThe new Saint Peter’s Basilica is 500 years old this year — or more specifically, it is five centuries since the cornerstone was laid. Read more... Tzaddiks, Fathers, and Sons - George WeigelOn a recent day off occasioned by some evil thing fastening upon me and laying me temporarily low, I re-read Chaim Potok's two wonderful novels, The Chosen and The Promise, the pleasures of which happily compensated for my indisposition. Read more... Uncle Tom's Victory - Phillip E. JohnsonToday, hardly anybody reads "Uncle Tom’s Cabin", probably because the book has picked up a reputation as a cliché-ridden anti-slavery potboiler rather than as the moving story of faith and courage it truly is. Another reason for the neglect of "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" is that it is written with a profoundly Christian sensibility. Read more... Under the Radar - Ben WattenbergNew. Newer. Newest. Shocking, More Shocking, Most Shocking. Shocking-est. Abstract. Super-abstract. If you went by the headlines, you'd think that this is all there is to contemporary art. But it's not. We'll show you another side of today's art scene in our Think Tank Special, "Art Under the Radar". Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Fri Feb 10 2012 - 01:37:12
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