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When we read The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, we are looking through a small keyhole into the wider created world which Tolkien began...

Letter # 12, February 9th, 1949 continued 5. Soul friendship Celtic saints often had a soul friend, a tradition arising from earlier...

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Five and a helf years ago, I wrote this post about Tolkien. It's a field worth exploring, and this is worth re-issuing: I wrote a thesis...

How Stories Really Work has never garnered less than a five star review since it was published almost five years ago - until now, when I...

Letter # 12, February 9th, 1949 continued 2. Dreams Ancient wisdom viewed dreams as respected signs from God, rather than the ‘merely...

Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker who is now considered to be a key figure...

Letter # 12, February 9th, 1949 Once you have some inkling of what spiritual maturity is like, you are still left living in the mortal...

When I finished my first read-through of Mel Lee Newmin’s science fiction novel Noman’s Land I made a few notes to give her some...