Sister Coulsey’s Furnace

By |2014-01-17T12:04:25-06:00May 11th, 2013|Categories: C. R. Wiley, Fiction, Literature, Moral Imagination|

Pastor Ricky had placed all his hopes on the Hawaiian shirt. He wanted to connect with people and he had seen one of those television preachers wearing one. The people at the TV preacher’s church were all tanned and good-looking. Some were even drinking coffee during the service. I need what that guy has, Ricky [...]

On Popular Fictions, Or How I Learned to Relax and Enjoy Downton Abbey

By |2016-02-12T15:28:30-06:00February 9th, 2013|Categories: Art, Books, Christianity, Culture, Daniel McInerny, Fiction, Film, G.K. Chesterton, T.S. Eliot|

Downton Abbey cast A friend of mine wrote on Facebook about Downton Abbey: “take away the English accents, the bucolic setting, the period costumes, and the antiquated moral code, and you’re left with Days of Our Lives. Some truth to that, I thought at first. Downton Abbey often suffers from severe melodramatic fits. [...]

Comic Book Superheroes

By |2016-02-14T16:01:08-06:00May 25th, 2012|Categories: Christianity, Communio, Culture, Fiction, Film, Heroism, Stratford Caldecott|Tags: |

…Stand up and keep your childishness: Read all the pedants’ screeds and strictures; But don’t believe in anything That can’t be told in coloured pictures. Chesterton would not have liked many of the stories told in coloured pictures by American comic books, which these days tend to dystopia and sado-eroticism—an all-too predictable reflection of the [...]

Supporting Our Friends: The Murrays, a couple of excellent talents

By |2013-12-17T08:35:07-06:00December 13th, 2011|Categories: Art, Bradley J. Birzer, Conservatism, Fiction|

Dear Imaginative Conservative Readers, If you need a last-minute Christmas gift, please keep in mind the artwork (calendars, etc.) of Tolkienian artist Jef Murray. Not only is Jef excellent at his craft, but he’s also—in every way—one of us, an imaginative conservative. Indeed, he and his wife, Lorraine Viscardi Murray (a highly published novelist and essayist) [...]

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