The Architecture of Servitude and Boredom — TIC
Do we descend steadily, and now somewhat speedily, toward a colossal architecture of unparalleled dreariness, and a colossal state of unparalleled uniformity? Will all of us labor under a profound depression of spirits because of the boring and servile architecture about us? 4,809 more words
via The Architecture of Servitude and Boredom — The Imaginative Conservative
The Forthcoming Tolkien Book?
(C) John Howe I deliberately withheld writing about this news at any point yesterday, as the annual pranking event of April Fool’s took over the internet. In order to ensure this was no typical joke, the rumoured whispers from distant shores seem to have declared the potential release of a “Tolkien Book” in August […]
via Are we looking at a New Tolkien Book on The Fall of Gondolin? — A Tolkienist’s Perspective
The Garden Redeemed: A Quiet Saturday
The removal.
Unbought Grace — The Imaginative Conservative
The qualities that I would love most of all to see in all our students could not be better described than by Edmund Burke’s account of the chivalric demeanor: “that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom”… 871 more…
Death on a Friday Afternoon (TIC)
Not only did Jesus manifest Himself as the Logos so long desired in the pagan West on that Friday afternoon, but He also manifested Himself as the Christ, the true and eternal king. 1,634 more words
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I’ve Not Been This Taken With YES in Almost 2 Decades
Review of Yes, FLY FROM HERE: RETURN TRIP (Pledgemusic, 2018). Tracks: Fly From Here, Parts 0-V; The Man You Always Wanted Me to Be; Life on a Film Set; Hour of Need; Solitaire; Don’t Take No For an Answer; and Into the Storm. Standout tracks: Madman at the Screen; Into the Storm. Sailor, sailor beware. […]
via Trevor Horn’s Glorious Re-Emergence in Yes: FLY FROM HERE: RETURN TRIP — Progarchy
Barbara Elliott at Her Writing Best: John with Jesus (TIC)
I went with Peter to make the arrangements for the Passover supper. When we arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus had told us to look for a man carrying a pitcher of water. 1,771 more words
via John with Jesus: From Passover to the Garden of Gethsemane — The Imaginative Conservative
Podcast with John Miller–THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
One of many JJM projects to save the world!
My great friend and ally, John J. Miller of NR fame, and I had a blast talking all things, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. 30 minutes of us bloviating with enthusiasm, if not wisdom!
Is the West Worth Defending by Joe Pearce (TIC)
We should respond to the question of whether the West is worth defending by first asking the more important question of which West it is that we are being asked to defend… 726 more words
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The Flower Kings–UNFOLD THE FUTURE (2017) review
A review The Flower Kings, UNFOLD THE FUTURE (2002; remastered and reissued, 2017). Tracks: The Truth Will Set You Free; Monkey Business; Black and White; Christianopel; Silent Inferno; The Navigator; Vox Humana; Genie in a Bottle; Fast Lane; Grand Old World; Soul Vortex; Rollin’ the Dice; The Devil’s Schooldance; Man Overboard; Solitary Shell; Devil’s Playground; […]
via Highest Prog Fantasy: Unfold The Future by the Flower Kings — Progarchy
On the Wealth of Nature (TIC)
More than just the ultimate inflation hedge, the wealth of Nature—gold, forests, land, agriculture—and the cautious stewardship of these tangible assets over easily-inflated government “IOU’s” is what distinguishes wealth from riches… 3,805 more words
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The Mythic and Enchanted Childhood of Christopher Dawson (TIC)
Stories of glass and stone—which told of the holy and sainted—convinced young Christopher Dawson that a saint was a saint not because of his or her individual talents, but as a continuation of the deepest longings and desires of the Church… 1,275 more words
via Etched in Glass and Stone: The Childhood of Christopher Dawson — The Imaginative Conservative
Stormfields 