Archive Month: August 2011

Potting Soil

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  August 29, 2011

by Teri Ong I am teaching a literature course this semester entitled “Four Christian Fantasists.” It happens to be about the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Charles Williams. There are others who would fit into this category beside these four, but these four are particularly eminent in the field. One could go so far as to say these men’s works are the measuring stick for those who have come after them. Now there is fantasy and there is fantasy. You all know what I mean. Just as there is the “blood-and-thunder” genre and the “cloak-and-dagger” […]

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Echos in the Heights

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  August 28, 2011

by Teri Ong High in the highest and craggiest of the crags of the mountains lived three brothers. There they found satisfaction doing their life’s work. It had not always been so. Their early life had been spent in the big city. There they had wandered about the streets trying to find their calling in life. Always they had traveled with a sense that there had to be something more in life than what they had in the city. Once in a while, one of them would get the vaguest sense that “Purpose” was near, perhaps just around the corner. […]

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Love, Teri

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  August 1, 2011

by Teri Ong I have a new favorite author at the moment– Harry Blamires. My husband appreciates his writing as well, and we have ordered a slew of wonderful books ranging from philology, grammar and literature topics to philosophy and theology, with a handful of fantastic fiction stories as well. I was first introduced to Blamires a few years ago by a librarian and the Evangelical Library in London. The librarian asked me what I was working on. I replied, “I’m looking at Christian aesthetics, culture, worldview…” “Oh! You’ll be reading Schaeffer and Rookemaaker and Blamires then.” The first two […]

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