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Awakening the Moral Imagination: Teaching Virtues Through Fairy Tales - Vigen Guroian

Fairy tale and modern fantasy stories project fantastic other worlds; but they also pay close attention to real moral "laws" of character and virtue. By portraying wonderful and frightening worlds in which ugly beasts are transformed into princes and evil persons are turned to stones and good persons back to flesh, fairy tales remind us of moral truths whose ultimate claims to normativity and permanence we would not think of questioning.   Email This Article

Be thankful Jane was so plain - Barbara Kay

A beautiful Jane Austen would have been a lesser writer.  Email This Article

Benedict’s Mozart - Rev. Andreas Kramarz, L.C.

What the Pope learned from his favorite composer.  Email This Article

Bernini's bust of Louis XIV - Paul Johnson

The relationship between a great artist and his sitters is a poignant one. But what they say to each other during the long periods of concentrated stillness, on the one hand, and frenzied search for a likeness, on the other, is seldom recorded.  Email This Article

Bizarre Narratives and Christian Truth - Charles Colson

For twenty years the letters sat in sealed boxes in a library at Emory University.  Email This Article

Blessed Teen Singer Attributes Her No. 1 Success to God - National Catholic Register

The title track of Rachel Lampa's first CD, "Live For You", quickly went to No. I on the Christian charts and has crossed over to the pop charts, She debuted the album Aug. 1 on the “Tonight Show” with Jay Leno, and was a featured performer at World Youth Day in Rome. She spoke recently with Register correspondent Wayne Laugesen near her home in suburban Denver.  Email This Article

Bob the Tomato Quotes Plato - Phil Vischer

Phil Vischer is a man who usually lets his vegetables do the talking for him. But recently Vischer talked about his new movie, "Jonah," why Christians aren't funny and why PG movies might be better for your kids.  Email This Article

Bootylicious backlash - Anne Marie Owens

The Pure Fashion movement is giving girls an alternative to hyper-sexualized ways of dressing.   Email This Article

Brad Miner on The Compleat Gentleman - Brad Miner

The notion of the gentleman has been out of fashion for some time, especially because of its connection to boorish, Victorian-era stoicism. However, Brad Miner believes that the example of the gentleman is ripe for recovery, and far from being a stick-in-the-mud, the "complete" gentleman is a passionate warrior, lover and monk.  Email This Article

Bright Spots: The Harlem Studio of Art - Roger Kimball

So much distasteful rubbish is foisted upon us today in the name of culture that it is easy to fall prey to despondency and think: "The game's up! Our culture is rotten to the core. Cyril Connolly was right when he complained that it was "Closing time in the gardens of the West." It's easy, but it's mistaken. Really, if you look, there are plenty (well, some) bright spots in our culture.  Email This Article


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