It seems to me that Christian literature can include fantasy, but not all fantasy is Christian. Lewis, Tolkien, Rowling all wrote Christian fiction in the...
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Ahnemann
ann_ahnemann
May 8, 2012 2:20 pm
Not sure the series qualifies as fantasy or Sci-fi, but what does anyone have to say about Hunger Games? I'm about 50 pages into the first book and find it...
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Richard Lyman
charles_wms_soc
May 8, 2012 2:27 pm
Entirely agree with Stephen. The latest blog makes much better sense than the first! Agreed, lots of fantasy fiction is trash; but the same applies to any...
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shoemakers525
May 8, 2012 6:42 pm
I teach in a classical school where our literature, Latin, and history curricula include a very broad swatch of mythologies. Literature includes the works of...
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Ahnemann
ann_ahnemann
May 9, 2012 12:21 am
Truly a great post, and wonderful teaching lessons! Just to expand- myth expresses perhaps the deepest truth. C. Jung and others expressed this fact very well....
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
May 13, 2012 4:53 pm
... Agreed - I think that the Inklings not only wrote Christian fantasy, but they wrote *good* Christian fantasy. Some other authors have tried to do that, but...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Jun 4, 2012 3:00 am
The following annotated list of Tolkien links is posted monthly on some Usenet newsgroups by Troels Forchhammer, and may be of interest to some. Tolkien...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Jun 4, 2012 4:29 am
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:21:07 +0200, Troels Forchhammer ... literature/> ... Thanks for the mention, but I think this misses the main point of the debate, which...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Jun 12, 2012 5:39 am
From Iambic Admonit blog So, what was I doing in the Wade Center for the 3 ½ work days I managed to squeeze in this week? Well, I was transcribing an...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Jun 15, 2012 6:13 am
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his...
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Ahnemann
ann_ahnemann
Jun 15, 2012 4:36 pm
Thanks Steve. Very good! AJA Sent from my iPad...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Jun 17, 2012 5:19 am
The boy who could see demons, and the psychiatrist who thought he was nuts http://t.co/b17lolYK The Boy Who Could See Demons by Carolyn Jess-Cooke My rating: 4...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Jun 17, 2012 5:23 am
I recently read a book called "The boy who could see demons", which was inspired by C.S. Lewis's "The Screwtape letters" (see other post). But I had another...
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Richard Lyman
charles_wms_soc
Jun 26, 2012 7:56 am
I hope you don't take offense in my sudden approach. I made a quick trip to Madrid, Spain and was attacked and robbed. My belongings including my cash, credit...
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Richard Lyman
charles_wms_soc
Jun 26, 2012 1:22 pm
IGNORE THAT. Hacker at workRichard Sturch....
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Graham Darling
newalchemist...
Jun 26, 2012 1:36 pm
Everyone, beware, this is a notorious spam and fraud: http://www.snopes.com/fraud/distress/family.asp . I've reported it to Canada's phonebusters.com – other...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Aug 8, 2012 3:29 pm
For those in North America (Eastern) Saturday, October 6, 2012, for our annual Open House, Orthodox Education Day (OED). This year's theme will be "Inklings of...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Sep 3, 2012 1:34 am
From Troels Forchhammer August 2012 While July was a month of scouting (and a new job), August has, for me, been very much a Tolkien month. The climax was of...
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Dan Drake
zzyzx98765
Sep 10, 2012 9:02 pm
This is kind of a long and involved and obscure query, based on a good deal of supposition. But it's a question that has come up in a long-dormant Yahoo group...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Sep 11, 2012 2:43 am
... Unfortunately I don't ... It is neither -- I just hope there is someone else who knows more about it than I do! -- Steve Hayes E-mail: shayes@......
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Dan Drake
zzyzx98765
Sep 12, 2012 4:17 pm
... Thanks. I was perhaps too apologetic, as the members of the group haven't shown any signs of disliking an obscure question. In fact, some more research has...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Oct 30, 2012 9:50 am
The Inklings it isn't, but I greatly enjoyed reading "The elegance of the hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery, which gives some insight into the meaning of ubuntu. My...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Oct 31, 2012 8:01 am
Williams was not an allegorist as, for example, was John Bunyan, whose Christian cannot be made to symbolize Everyman or any man, but only Christian man. He...
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Richard Lyman
charles_wms_soc
Oct 31, 2012 10:12 am
Agrred: but Williams did come very close to allegory in "The House by the Stable" and "Grab and Grace". Richard Sturch. ________________________________ From:...
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Ahnemann
ann_ahnemann
Oct 31, 2012 11:43 am
Loved that Book! Ann Sent from my iPad...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Oct 31, 2012 7:32 pm
... Now those I have not read, or even heard of before! -- Steve Hayes E-mail: shayes@... Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/litmain.htm ...
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Carolyn Janson
caro195au
Oct 31, 2012 10:36 pm
I enjoyed it too! Is all well Ann, with you? Glad to see you posting! Carolyn ... -- Carolyn I'm an iherb fan: use my code WUY356 for your first purchase and...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Nov 1, 2012 12:59 pm
This was posted on the alt.usage.english newsgroup recently: "The word 'hobbit' has certainly been seeing a lot of legal action lately, thanks to the Saul...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Nov 3, 2012 2:49 am
Note: this is forwarded from the newsgroup alt.books.inklings. Some of the links maywrap to the next line and you may need to copy and paste them to your web...
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eldil@yahoogroups.com
Dec 1, 2012 9:53 pm
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