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The Knowledge of the Mystery
By Hayden Lukas “Existence tends to be reduced to its own corpse; it lies outside the power of any philosophy whatsoever to resuscitate such a corpse.” -Gabriel Marcel One way of defining a Christian is “a person with a certain set of beliefs.” There is good reason for this. When the evangelical Reformers of the…
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The Imperfect Imitation: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris
By Adrian Bordeleau Arguably the greatest Russian filmmaker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s seven films are each a profound internal odyssey. Through these films he explores with great delicacy existential and spiritual conflicts that are at once recognizable as thoroughly Russian, yet universal. Tarkovsky saw film as a relatively new medium and believed in rooting his work in…
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Oh, the Wild Joy of Understanding Thursday
by Stephen Wagner G. K. Chesterton. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2004. Originally published in Bristol, U.K. by J. W. Arrowsmith, 1908. For some, myself included, the enterprise of literary criticism has taken on dubious associations. One reason for my antipathy to this discipline is that it…
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The Mystery of Evil and The Red Dragon
By Sebastian Grünbaum [Editor’s Note: This essay analyzes the movie The Red Dragon (2002). There are “spoilers” ahead, as the first section of the essay is a synopsis of the film.] The Mystery of Evil In Christian theology, dragons are usually seen as symbols for the devil or demons. The painter William Blake (1757-1827) was…
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The Unity of the Body: A Framework for Relationships
By John Karolus In my reading of the epistles as instructions to the early church on how to exist, one theme seems to stretch over each edge of the canvas entirely: Unity. Unity not only as a value to be pursued or a command to be obeyed, but even more so as a way to…
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Achieve or Receive: Nancy and Anne
By Rebekah Lukas Nancy Drew has garnered audiences of young women for over 100 years. Generations of girls grew up reading the adventures of this teenage girl detective. I was one of them. I grew up with Nancy. Anne was there, of course, in the background. I knew she existed, but I didn’t grow up…