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On the Importance of Terminology: Blind Faith
The subject of this post has been bothering me for a while now. What I will address is whether or not “blind faith” is myth or fact. Does it afflict all of humanity or only particular worldviews? What I would like to offer is a different way at looking at this unfortunate combination of words, “blind” and “faith.” In so doing, I want to expose a significant conflict...
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Top Posts of 2013: Literary Apologetics, Writing, and CS Lewis in the Spotlight
2013 has been a very good year for Hieropraxis, with lots of great posts – especially on the subjects of literary apologetics and C.S. Lewis! I’ve rounded up the ten most-viewed posts that were published this year, and collected them here, so that you can catch up on anything you’ve missed! There are three categories – CS Lewis, general apologetics, and...
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Ben Hur: The Great Christian Epic
There was a time when Hollywood battled for which studio could churn out the best epic, the greatest film, the most splendor upon the big screen. “Ben Hur” was a film which towered above all the rest. It won 11 academy awards, a feat matched only by two other movies (“Titanic” and “The Return of the King”), but it was also the only one of those three to win for acting...
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Seven Stellar Gifts: the Hieropraxis Gift Guide 2013
I recently contributed a few items to Kelly Belmonte’s gift-suggestions post on All Nine Muses, and found her idea of “Gifts by friends from friends for friends” to be delightful – so I’ve made this year’s Hieropraxis gift-suggestions list along the same line. Here are seven selections that I think are well worth your time (and money), in four categories....
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Many-Splendored Things: a Review of The Singing Bowl by Malcolm Guite
What is poetry? To seek an answer is to find a seeming infinity of thought. There are many fine and famous replies to that question. In one beautiful line, Lamartine tells us that “poetry is the morning dream of great minds.”[1] And it seems a thing inexhaustible, for in one sonnet, John Keats wrote “the poetry of earth is ceasing never.”[2] Then too, Jonathan Swift never...
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How Stories Talk When They Talk About Love
In one of Raymond Carver’s classic stories, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” two married couples sit around a kitchen table, drinking gin, talking about what they really mean when they use the word “love.” Three of the four have been married multiple times, and they’ve got some disagreements on the subject. By the story’s end, Carver manages to say...
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A Joyful Debt: A Thanksgiving Sonnet
Two years ago, as part of a friendly challenge among poets, I wrote this sonnet on (and for) the holiday of Thanksgiving. I share it again today, with renewed thanks for my friends and for the gift of language. This year, 2013, I am particularly thankful on this Thanksgiving day for the life and witness of C.S. Lewis. On Friday Nov. 22, Lewis was honored with a Memorial in...
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