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October 2009

October 12, 2009

Edgar Allan Poe’s funeral was yesterday

Edgar Allan Poe died 160 years ago. On the anniversary of his death, yesterday, he...

October 09, 2009

The best television show ever?

Michael Anton makes a good case for The Twilight Zone: “Fantasy is the impossible made...

October 06, 2009

Reading list for “Major Christian Authors”

I mentioned in a post yesterday that I am teaching a course at Patrick Henry...

October 05, 2009

Christian movies try to be better, but still. . .

From an article entitled "Growing quantity of `Christian’ films now focus on quality": In addition...

October 01, 2009

Sarah Palin’s co-author

Whenever I so much as mention Sarah Palin, it provokes a shark-like feeding frenzy of...

September 2009

September 30, 2009

Conversation with the Wittenberg playwright #4

More of my correspondence with David Davalos, author of the play Wittenberg, shared with his...

September 29, 2009

Conversation with the Wittenberg playwright #3

Picking up on my exchange with David Davalos, author of Wittenberg--the play about Luther, Hamlet,...

September 28, 2009

The West Oversea experiment

Last week we blogged about Dan Brown's new book, which, despite its awful writing and...

September 28, 2009

Conversations with the Wittenberg Playwright #2

Continuing the conversation with David Davalos, the author of Wittenberg, this is what I wrote...

September 25, 2009

Conversations with the Wittenberg playwright #1

You may recall that I recently blogged about a play I recently attended entitled Wittenberg,...

September 25, 2009

Old English treasure horde

Do you remember in Beowulf about the dragon's gold-horde, and how after Beowulf died killing...

September 23, 2009

What's the appeal of bad writing?

Good discussion yesterday of Dan Brown's deadly prose. But this raises another question. Even though...

September 22, 2009

Recognizing bad writing

Dan Brown, the author of The Da Vinci Code who thinks Christianity is a vast...

September 18, 2009

Devil's Dictionary, revisited

Ambrose Bierce was a late 19th, early 20th century American satirist who penned The Devil's...

September 14, 2009

Wittenberg, the Play

Last Spring I blogged about a new play called Wittenberg, which is about three individuals...

September 14, 2009

Educating children to be normal

My colleague Mark Mitchell has published a scintillating article in Touchstone that touches on one...

September 10, 2009

What makes this writing bad?

Dan Brown, author of the Christian-bashing, made-up-history-presented-as-truth, mega-selling novel The Da Vinci Code has a...

September 02, 2009

Disney is buying Marvel Comics for $4 billion

I used to buy comic books for 12 cents! Who would have thought that Marvel...

August 2009

August 31, 2009

A new portrait of Shakespeare?

The Washington Post Magazinepublished a fascinating article on the possibility that scholars have discovered a...

July 2009

July 17, 2009

Supernatural Resources

I've learned about some first-rate resources and sources of resources that I wanted to let...

July 17, 2009

Amish fiction & Christian vampire novels

The Associated Press has an article on the biggest thing in Christian fiction: novels about...

July 02, 2009

Health Care Rationing is N.I.C.E.

One Eternal Day assembles material from a number of sources on how nationalized health care...

June 2009

June 18, 2009

Shakespeare on postmodernism

Four hundred years ago, the bard saw it coming and saw where it would lead....

June 12, 2009

Lars Walker’s new novel

Lars Walker, a frequent commenter on this blog, is a novelist of note. He is...

May 2009

May 22, 2009

Stanley Fish defends faith

Stanley Fish is a major postmodern literary critic, but before he got famous for that,...

May 14, 2009

Another kind of God-talk in the public square

In the course of a discussion about that litigious atheist who is seeking to censor...

May 12, 2009

A new Tolkien book

J. R. R. Tolkien's translation of the Norse saga The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun...

April 2009

April 30, 2009

Hobbit update

In an interview with Empire, producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro divulged their...

April 30, 2009

A Reformation Comedy

I posted about a play coming to my neck of the woods, "Wittenberg," about that...

April 28, 2009

A play I have to see

The University of Wittenberg was Luther's school, of course. In literature, it was also where...