J. R. R. Tolkien: Great or Second-Rate?
Recently, Roger Scruton, commenting in passing on the Lord of the Rings, called it “second-rate.”
Read MorePosted by Carl C. Curtis | Jun 13, 2017 | Books, Culture, Featured, Literature, Movies |
Recently, Roger Scruton, commenting in passing on the Lord of the Rings, called it “second-rate.”
Read MorePosted by Carl C. Curtis | Jun 7, 2017 | Books, Conservatism, Faith, Featured, Spirituality, Theology |
Scruton’s theology posits that Christ becomes man and dies to reconcile us not to God but to death.
Read MorePosted by Carl C. Curtis | May 31, 2017 | Culture, Family, Featured, Movies |
However, when I finally decided to sit through Rebel Without a Cause, I discovered, much to my surprise, an oddly conservative statement.
Read MorePosted by Carl C. Curtis | May 26, 2017 | Culture, Featured, Literature, Manners, Media, TV/Radio |
For me, Mike Bartlett’s play “Charles III” sinks of its own cleverness and drowns in a flood of clichés.
Read MoreAn appearance, or a “fashion,” ought to ideally have something to do with reality, but plain experience tells us that very often the ideal does not obtain; hence, good sense advises men to look beyond what they see.
Read MoreI contend with absolute conviction that the world would be a better place if Chuck Berry, Elvis, Little Richard, and every Commando of the British Invasion had never lived.
Read MorePosted by Carl C. Curtis | Apr 18, 2017 | America, Culture, Featured, Foreign Affairs |
The last time I checked, Christians worshipped the one true God: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. . . . Seems that doctrine is getting lost in the flood of good will, which is, pardon the cliché, tragic.
Read MorePosted by Carl C. Curtis | Apr 1, 2017 | Featured, Literature, Poetry, Spirituality |
In these two hymn, readers will meet a poet who, though he may not be exactly easy, presents images of beauty and, in his own words, “terror” that are the very stuff of the Christian walk that Eliot himself began in 1927.
Read MorePosted by Carl C. Curtis | Mar 18, 2017 | Culture, Featured, Manners |
Setting aside my overall beef that most of us feel like zombies twice a year, on the average for about ten days, and that Tenebrae services are held too often in daylight, I find myself wondering why people felt so compelled to change something so fundamental to experience.
Read MorePosted by Carl C. Curtis | Mar 9, 2017 | America, Culture, Education, Featured |
Just last week a group of so-called students, egged on by teachers ardent to relive their own...
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