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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... Pages: [<<] ... 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 26-Feb-2011 - 11:00:17
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