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October 2016

October 18, 2016

Keeping Christianity Strange: Celebrating Rev. Hedges in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time Feast of St. Luke The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New...

October 03, 2016

Can Christians Believe Myths? Looking to Tolkien for Some Answers

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 3 October 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

October 01, 2016

A Long, Rainy Walk in the Woods

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 1 October 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

September 2016

September 26, 2016

The Society of Trees: What the Trees Can Teach Us

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 23 September 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New...

September 23, 2016

To Autumn: Feasts, Angels, and Joy

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 23 September 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

September 22, 2016

On Bilbo and Frodo’s Birthday: A Reflection on Food and Feasting

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time Nativity of Bilbo and Frodo The Edge of Elfland Hudson,...

September 16, 2016

On the Edges of Elfland Is Available for Purchase!

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time St. Ninian The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

September 09, 2016

Seeing the Invisible: Reflecting on Elves in Iceland and Native Americans in the US

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 9 September 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

September 06, 2016

The Eucharist the Basis of Leisure: Some Reflections on Josef Pieper, Fr. Jacques Hamel, and C. S. Lewis

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 5 September 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

September 02, 2016

The Atlantis Theory: The Numenorean Connection Between the Works of Lewis and Tolkien

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 2 September 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

September 01, 2016

Pope Francis in Elfland: Reflections on Laudato Si’ Part II

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 1 September 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 2016

August 30, 2016

Pope Francis in Elfland: Reflections on Laudato Si’ Part I

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 30 August 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 28, 2016

Remembering Robert Kirk: David Bentley Hart on The Secret Commonwealth and Contemplative Rationality

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time St. Augustine's Day The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 18, 2016

The Dementor’s Kiss (Redux) and the Problem of Muggleborns: Two Thoughts upon Finishing the Harry Potter Series

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 18 August 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 16, 2016

Surrounding Myself with Beauty to Stave Off Sin

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 16 August 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

August 12, 2016

Working for Signum University and Tolkien and Tradition

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 13 August 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 11, 2016

Darkness in Elfland: Tolkien on Whether Fairies Are Demons and a (Hopefully) Fuller Account of Enchantment

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time St. Clare's Day 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New...

August 10, 2016

Fungi in Elfland: The Wood Wide Web and the Interconnectedness of Creation

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 10 August 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 09, 2016

The Scene from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that always Makes Me Cry

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 9 August 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 08, 2016

How I’m Doing with C.S. Lewis’ Canon of Western Civilization

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time St. Dominic's Day The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

August 05, 2016

Racism, Our Lady of Faërie, Narnia and More: My Most Popular Posts Since Joining Patheos Catholic

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time St. Oswald's Day The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 04, 2016

Arthur’s Tintagel Rediscovered: Archaeological Evidence of an Ancient British Palace

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 4 August 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 02, 2016

Overcoming Evil with the Common and the Ordinary: Reflections on Harry Potter and G.K. Chesterton

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 2 August 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

August 01, 2016

The Flammarion Engraving: Reflecting on One of My Favorite Images, Light in the Midst of Darkness

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 1 August 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

July 2016

July 30, 2016

My First Book is Available for Pre-Order: Being Deified: Poetry and Fantasy on the Path to God

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 30 July 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire Dear...

July 24, 2016

How the Midwest Formed My Imagination: A Reflection on My First Visit to My Hometown in Five Years

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time The Edge of Elfland...

July 22, 2016

On Submitting the Manuscript of My Novel, On the Edges of Elfland

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time Feast of St. Mary Magdalen The Edge of Elfland Hudson,...

July 21, 2016

A Vision of Angels: Revisiting a Vision Given During My Son’s Cancer Treatment

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 21 July 2016, On the Edge of Elfland Hudson,...

July 16, 2016

The Dementor’s Kiss: What Is a Soul and Can You Lose It?

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 12 July 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

July 09, 2016

Waking Up: Taking Solace in the Escape of Fairy-stories and Awaiting the Return of Christ with Joy

David Russell Mosley Ordinary Time 9 July 2016 The Edge of Elfland Hudson, New Hampshire...

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