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Every week in The Kiddy Pool, Erin Newcomb confronts one of many issues that parents must deal with related to popular culture. Beware the monster in the mirror; it might just be you. My little one loves to look at her reflection. Few things make her light up like looking at herself. If she gets [...]
Sometimes the best way to view the man behind the curtain is through the lens of the Fall.
The Airborne Toxic Event continues to explore life’s struggles on The Secret EP released March 11th, 2013.
It’s that dismissal of children, that nostalgic lens for regarding childhood as a state free from the weight of real fears or anxieties, that bothers me.
Yesterday marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Arthur Machen (1863-1947), an author who penned several influential works of supernatural horror and fantasy in his almost fifty-year writing career. While hardly a household name today, Machen can count among his past and present admirers H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Ray [...]
Each week in God and Country Music, Nick Rynerson gives country music a chance and examines the world of Americana, folk, alt-country, and popular country music. Yesterday, Seattle folk-pop band Ivan & Alyosha released their debut album, All the Times We’ve Had. Now, I’ve got to confess, I am hooked on this band right now so [...]
Every week in The Kiddy Pool, Erin Newcomb confronts one of many issues that parents must deal with related to popular culture. Bedtime battles also make me think of the ways we resist what is good for us, as earthly children and as children of God. I started reading Maria Tatar’s Enchanted Hunters for a scholarly [...]
As Christians and thinkers, we need to consider the format of our reading in context with our desired result for that reading.
Few news items have caused such outrage among my peers this week as the revelation that on a new book cover, our beloved (and auburn-tressed) Anne of Green Gables has gone blond. Maybe you, like my facebook friends, find this “terribly wrong,” “thoroughly disturbing,” tear-inducing, nausea-inducing, and/or rage-inducing; or maybe, like one of my fellow [...]
Author Sandra Miesel notes the numerous Catholic authors that have made contributions to the “speculative fiction” genre.
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