The Two Messengers
Perhaps to the clear-eyed angelThere was nothing in the word he brought but glory:Infinite splendor in a point of flesh,Bursting, breaking through the veil of blood and mucus,Passing through a narrow gateTo fill creation with…
Tag: Edwin Woodruff Tait
It’s a Wonderful Life: Defending Eucatastrophe
~ By Edwin Woodruff Tait It’s a Wonderful Life has been in my mind a lot recently. Not least because a few weeks ago I had the privilege of playing George Bailey in the climactic…
Wolf Hall and the Myth of the Moral Pragmatist
The BBC/PBS miniseries Wolf Hall is six hours of some of the most absorbing television (or just storytelling generally) I’ve ever seen. I have not yet read the books by Hilary Mantel on which the…
How Mere Christianity Made Me a Catholic
For many years now, the main rival to Catholicism for me has been the concept of “mere Christianity” articulated by C. S. Lewis. Lewis’ most famous explanation of the subject is, of course, in his…
Narnia in the Spotlight: Thoughts on the C.S. Lewis and His Classical View of Human Nature
The main effect that Disney’s film production of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe had on me was to remind me just how central Narnia has been to my life and to the way…
Remembering St. Bernard: Theologian of Love
One of my grandmother's favorite medieval Catholics was, as it happens, St. Bernard of Clairvaux. He wasn’t the only Catholic she admired, but he was perhaps the only medieval or post-medieval canonized saint who meant a…