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The Pen and the Sword: August 2015
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The Pen and the Sword. Fighting for Culture through Great Literature and the Catholic Faith. Project R.L.S. Saturday, August 1, 2015. Farewell, and See You In God's Country. Tomorrow evening I board a plane headed west. At long last, I am entering this grand adventure called Wyoming Catholic College. And I will be so busy reading Great Books and climbing mountains and making friends and praising God- that I will not have time to keep up this blog any longer. Relating my college adventures. And I will...
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The Pen and the Sword: Farewell, and See You In God's Country
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The Pen and the Sword. Fighting for Culture through Great Literature and the Catholic Faith. Project R.L.S. Saturday, August 1, 2015. Farewell, and See You In God's Country. Tomorrow evening I board a plane headed west. At long last, I am entering this grand adventure called Wyoming Catholic College. And I will be so busy reading Great Books and climbing mountains and making friends and praising God- that I will not have time to keep up this blog any longer. Relating my college adventures. And I will...
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The Pen and the Sword: February 2015
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The Pen and the Sword. Fighting for Culture through Great Literature and the Catholic Faith. Project R.L.S. Thursday, February 26, 2015. The Celtic Stereotype: A Rant. I know St. Patrick's Day is still weeks away. And I know I should be used to how our secular culture trashes real holidays. But the diluting of this particular holiday touches one of my pet peeves- the romanticization of the Celtic. That I began unearthing the Celtic riches for myself. Of course, is set in Scotland, so the book left me obs...
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The Pen and the Sword: Being Happy Thinking: Tidbits from Stevenson's "Walking Tours"
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The Pen and the Sword. Fighting for Culture through Great Literature and the Catholic Faith. Project R.L.S. Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Being Happy Thinking: Tidbits from Stevenson's "Walking Tours". View of Glen Frankfort (aka Island Prairie Park), where I have spent many hours "being happy thinking". It's a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson's essay "Walking Tours". The poor, clock-haunted moderns Stevenson was referring to, by the way, were the inhabitants of Victorian Britain. How much deeper have we ...
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The Pen and the Sword: Divine Authorship: Reflections for Novelists from "Mere Christianity"
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The Pen and the Sword. Fighting for Culture through Great Literature and the Catholic Faith. Project R.L.S. Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Divine Authorship: Reflections for Novelists from "Mere Christianity". Photo by JulesInKY, morgueFile.com. In my post last week I mentioned that one of the most significant events of my spiritual retreat was reading C. S. Lewis'. In the chapter "Time and Beyond Time," Lewis attempts to explain in layman's terms the mind-boggling mystery of God's life in eternity:. That is d...
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The Pen and the Sword: June 2015
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The Pen and the Sword. Fighting for Culture through Great Literature and the Catholic Faith. Project R.L.S. Thursday, June 11, 2015. We Are God's Poeima: Poetry and the Human Person. Photo by DeduloPhotos, Morguefile.com. In the midst of novel-writing, volunteering for the Catholic Writers Guild, and starting to prepare for a freshman year of college which seems threateningly close, I find I have neglected my own blog (again) for a full two weeks. Sadly, I. Haven't time to make a proper post! With a vlog...
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The Pen and the Sword: A Heart-cry
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The Pen and the Sword. Fighting for Culture through Great Literature and the Catholic Faith. Project R.L.S. Wednesday, July 1, 2015. Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844–1930),. Cry of the Prophet Jeremiah on the Ruins of Jerusalem. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. O God, God! Jeremiah's words echo eternal:. I did not sit in the company of merrymakers,. Nor did I rejoice;. Under the weight of your hand I sat alone,. For you had filled me with indignation. Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable,. It is they ...
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The Pen and the Sword: April 2015
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The Pen and the Sword. Fighting for Culture through Great Literature and the Catholic Faith. Project R.L.S. Thursday, April 23, 2015. God's Forgotten Friends: Two Reviews of Susan Peek. Recently through the Catholic Writers Guild I met the wonderful. I am happy today to offer my readers reviews of two books in her series:. A Soldier Surrenders: The Conversion of St. Camillus de Lellis. Saint Magnus: The Last Viking. In this brand-new edition of. You think you know so much about courage, Camillus? This op...
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The Pen and the Sword: A Week at Christ the Bridegroom Monastery
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The Pen and the Sword. Fighting for Culture through Great Literature and the Catholic Faith. Project R.L.S. Thursday, May 21, 2015. A Week at Christ the Bridegroom Monastery. Also, in gratitude to the sisters of Christ the Bridegroom for welcoming me into their community for the week, I'd like to share the link to their website and blog, and a few points of their mission. I did more reading over the past week than I probably have in the past three months. It reminded me again just how much I need Gre...
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The Pen and the Sword: July 2015
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The Pen and the Sword. Fighting for Culture through Great Literature and the Catholic Faith. Project R.L.S. Wednesday, July 1, 2015. Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844–1930),. Cry of the Prophet Jeremiah on the Ruins of Jerusalem. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. O God, God! Jeremiah's words echo eternal:. I did not sit in the company of merrymakers,. Nor did I rejoice;. Under the weight of your hand I sat alone,. For you had filled me with indignation. Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable,. It is they ...
