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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Some Thoughts on the Harry Potter Series - Michael D. O'BrienThere is currently a strong controversy raging over J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Because I have six children of my own, all of them avid readers with an interest in fantasy literature, I have followed it closely. Read more... Songs for Hard Times - Terry MattinglyThe powers that be made sure the Country Music Association Awards started with fireworks, red-white-and-blue streamers and star-spangled guitars. But it was Alan Jackson who stopped the show with a post-Sept. 11 anthem that had the faithful drying their eyes. Read more... Spiderman’s Gift - Sean MurphyIn the midst of the scandals that have broken in the United States, Spiderman has a timely message; with authority and power come responsibility. From those to whom much has been given, it is written, much will be expected — and not just by anguished laity, outraged media and determined attorneys general. Read more... St. Augustine and His Mother - St. AugustineAs the day now approached on which she was to depart this life (which day Thou knewst, we did not), it fell out - Thou, as I believe, by Thy secret ways arranging it — that she and I stood alone, leaning in a certain window, from which the garden of the house we occupied at Ostia could be seen; at which place, removed from the crowd, we were resting ourselves for the voyage, after the fatigues of a long journey. Read more... St. Odd?: The Catholics Who Love Dean Koontz - Tim DrakeAlthough he’s a multi-million, best-selling author, he doesn’t do book tours, skips flying, avoids writers’ conferences and rarely gives interviews. In some ways he mirrors Odd Thomas. He’s humble, self-deprecating, has confronted evil and lived to tell the tale and has an eye for the supernatural. Read more... St. Peter's, Warts and All - Elizabeth LevSadly, many people who don't know the name of the present Pope turn out to be quite well versed in the more scandalous papacies of centuries past. Yet that same mentality that takes a gossip magazine as seriously as a history text, never fails to be taken aback by the number of people thronging St. Peter's Square today, traveling thousands of miles to see the Successor of St. Peter. Read more... Star Wars Culture - Terry MattinglyWhile tweaking the original Star Wars movie for re-release, director George Lucas decided that he needed to clarify the status of pilot Han Solo's soul. Read more... Steady As She Goes - Theodore DalrympleThe relation of language to thought has long been a philosophical puzzle, one to which no universally accepted answer has yet been given. Read more... Suggested Reading - Children's Literature - Michael D. O'BrienThe books listed here will help make clear what it is that good literature is meant to do and why what so often passes for literature these days fails to live up to that high calling. Read more... Summer Sleepers - John PrizerCommitted Christians should take a step back before going with the flow of summer movies. Even though this pop-culture carnival is designed primarily to entertain, the values propagated by many of its products can be toxic. If you’re willing to look beyond the Hollywood hype machine, you can find smaller, lower-budget films that are equally involving but don’t depend on celebrity superstars, state-of-the-art special effects or the exploitation of sex and violence to hold your attention. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 30-Jul-2010 - 13:27:37
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