Robert E. Howard is renowned among fantasy fans as the creator of such memorable “Sword and Sorcery” characters as Conan the Cimmerian, Kull of Atlantis, and Solomon Kane. In fact, […]
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Philip K. Dick, born 1928, was an American science fiction writer. Active from 1951 to 1982, PKD produced 44 novels, 121 short stories, and 14 short story collections. While he
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What we today herald as literary “classics,” the fruits of a Christianized Western culture, offer us a creative approach to finding God in our lives and to cultivating virtue. They
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https://anchor.fm/voyagepodcast/episodes/The-Voyage-Blog-cast-The-Parables-and-Proselytizing-of-George-MacDonald-e2b52r0 The power of storytelling ignites something deep within us. A primordial spark rising like the morning star in our hearts that awakens our intellects and emotions and leads us
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When I was younger, Mom once retrieved an old, chunky copy of The Divine Comedy from the bookshelf. It was one of those “classics” which many have heard of but
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John Bunyan was born sometime during 1628 and was baptized on November 30 of the same year in Bedfordshire, England. As a child, he attended the local grammar school in
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The works of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien have fascinated the world of fiction and fantasy since the publication of The Hobbit, followed by his monumental The Lord of the Rings.
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Middle-earth and Narnia are the two most iconic fantasy realms of all time. They were imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, respectively. These two writers and academics were good
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Whenever one treats Gandalf as a “Christ-figure” in The Lord of the Rings, they often point out his sacrificial death on the bridge of Khazad-Dûm and his resurrection as Gandalf
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The world was blind, the boughs were bent, All ways and paths were wild: Then the veil of cloud apart was rent, And here was born a Child. (From Tolkien’s
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