Tied to the mast of the ship of fools
The advertising for the super bowl is almost as important as the game itself. And that game involves only eleven minutes on average of actual playing. Which means a pretty thin slice of meat around a...
View Articlesilent planets: the hack paints back
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes, Maplewood, N.J.) Out of the Silent Planet Avon, 1956 Illustration: Everett Raymond Kinstler (b. 1926) Part one of the “Space Trilogy” of stories—also...
View Articleas though paradise had never been lost
Christian theology projected beyond earth and man, a theology of the universe at the dawn of the space age was what C.S. Lewis was tapping into. ” as though Paradise had never been lost and earliest...
View Articleonward christian spacemen: the turning of the screwtape
C.S. Lewis was an English man of letters who made theology a form of entertainment in The Screwtape Letters, then with his space trilogy theology went astral… The overwhelming distances of astronomy,...
View Articlefinding eve: eternal mantle of the clouds
C.S. Lewis, the Apostle to the Skeptics. The man who admitted that god was god and became “the most dejected and reluctant convert in all of England.” With his space trilogy, he became the Christian...
View Articlefrom strength to strength
C.S. Lewis. The Christian spaceman who put theology into outer space and planetary adventure… The third novel in C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy series , That Hideous Strength, is a buyoant satire on the...
View Articlebowing your head at the Name
If its not bent it’s broken. And if it’s not broken don’t fix it… In this sweeping theological fantasy, man is both reduced and exalted. Reduced in the naked depiction of his self-wrought condition,...
View Articlethe Fat lady
Finding behind the laughter all kinds of hate, cruelty and perverted fantasies. In a way, the Glasses are an intimate club, as David Leitch once said, a peculiarly intimate club in which Salinger’s...
View Articlebig bang and it came upon us
The nature of evil, the mechanical moving parts that make up villainy.The question is always posed, so that the question reveals the answer: if humanity collectively does want evil, then why does it...
View Articleassault on english
…The deadening influence that official jargon can exert upon thought was a topic that preoccupied George Orwell. … In Orwell’s novel, 1984 he recounted dramatically how a government in control of all...
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