A recent suggestion by a scientist that we try cloning Neanderthals reminded me of two books that depict this lost human race and raise questions about our own, homo sapiens.Continue readingLiterary Neanderthals: Not So Stupid After All
Month: February 2010
My Lenten reading reminds me that Christianity always takes its inspiration from real stories of real people struggling to love and trust God.Continue readingEncouraging Stories of Ancient Saints
Michael Ward’s Planet Narnia reveals the influence of medieval allegory that invests C. S. Lewis’s Narnia stories with hidden levels of meaning.Continue readingPlanet Narnia: Tutelary Deities
In In his foreword to the Image Books edition of St. Augustine’s City of God, Etienne Gilson reminds us that any society not based on love of God and love of neighbor is doomed to fail.Continue readingGilson’s Foreword to the City of God