Off I went to study at Oxford filled with the love of England and English literature only to find that the English had little love of their own most popular exports. I expected Oxford [...]

In his encyclical Fides et Ratio Pope St John Paul II defined scientism as “the philosophical notion which refuses to admit the validity of forms of knowledge other than those of the positive sciences; [...]

There is a certain ripeness about the American south that breeds larger than life characters. One thinks of the robust and lusty characters in Tennessee Williams, the quiet eccentrics of Walker Percy, the country [...]

The Baptism of C.S.Lewis’ Imagination In October of 1916, on a train platform bookstall, C.S.Lewis picked up a volume that changed his life. It was Phantastes by George MacDonald. Lewis had been reading The Faerie [...]

In England the process has begun for the possible canonization of the portly prophet--G.K.Chesterton. The prolific author has influenced millions with his writings, and the influential people who have fallen under his spell have [...]

There are moments in childhood when a window in the mind seems to open and the future is glimpsed. So it was as I lay on my bed at the age of ten or [...]