The Great Conversation: Form By Gabriel Blanchard Many terms that are colossal in meaning sound unassuming: God, beauty, truth; none is more deceitfully humdrum than form. The theory […]
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HughesAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Human dignity perennially demands both political and artistic expression; in Langston Hughes, both impulses are revealed. ❧ Full name: James Mercer Langston
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The Great Conversation: Scripture—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard The nature and history of the idea of Scripture is, and remains, about as tangled as an idea can get.
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Codices and Quadragesimas Time and Eastertide wait for no man, as the saying does not go, and anyone planning a Lenten observance has nearly run out … Tomorrow
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The Great Conversation: Scripture—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard Sacred Scripture, a contested idea if ever there was one, is also one of the single most fruitful topics in
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HurstonAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard One aspect of American culture sailed here in the Mayflower; another, in the Amistad. ❧ Full name: Zora Neale Hurston [zõ-rà nē-àł
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The Great Conversation: Magic—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard The effects of magic on both history and literature are well-nigh incalculable, both when it is believed in and when
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MorrisonAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Morrison re-presents a perennial theme in our literature: the mystery of iniquity, of not only suffering but active evil. She also hints
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The Great Conversation:Magic—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard From The High History of the Holy Graal to Macbeth to The Lord of the Rings, we seem to have an
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WycliffeAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard In one sense Wycliffe was simply one more example of Medieval patterns of belief and devotion; but the patterns were breaking, and
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