Review of Madeleine L’Engle’s Camillia Madeleine L’Engle has never been one to mince her words or define her relationship with God in superficial terms. CS Lewis often had a didactic tone when speaking of spiritual matters whereas Madeleine L’Engle beautifully weaves prose that is simplistically deep. Despite her skills, she has been overlooked within the…

Spiral Staircase:My Climb Out of Darkness     In the spirit of the transcendentalists, Karen Armstrong embraces a liberated method of seeing God after being cooped up in the prison of subservience that has restricted her ability to be both authentic and inquisitive. The title is borrowed from the meaning behind T.S. Elliot’s famous poem “Ash…

Announcement: Blog Schism    Due to acquiring needed advice about the layout of the blogs, I feel that its time for the blogs to undergo a schism of sorts.  This blog feels like it has greatly deviated from the main course of providing book reviews. Anyone looking at this blog can easily lose their footing…

Labyrinths and Ladders Part 1:The Labyrinth of Alice in Wonderland    Within mythology, the labyrinth is a common feature. Normally, the labyrinth relates to some sort of painstaking inner struggle. It is often perilous and overwhelming because labyrinths commonly are things which cause apprehension like our own minds. When we initially step within the first…

Analysis of Kamelot’s Karma Part 1/4     In our modern dialogue, the mythic force of karma relates to the array of consequences that are naturally produced from our individual decisions. We love to denote certain decisions as issuing good or bad karma. Many times, we use karma as a way of describing fate’s natural counteraction to…

Memnoch the Devil Discussion Part 2: The Splendor of Heaven, Lestat’s journey to Dante’s Paradiso  Originally, my vision of heaven was innocently divine and was very vacuous. When I was younger, the only earthly sense to describe heaven with was perfect gratification. Essentially, I thought heaven contained infinite amounts of all the pleasurable things known to…

Wall Street Journal’s Meghan Gurdon is Trapped in Plato’s Cave  (A Response to her recent “Darkness Too Visible,” article) Before reading my post, please read this article! Yesterday, Meghan Cox Gurdon wrote an extremely divisive article that detailed her problems with the growing darkness of recent young adult novels. Similar to television, censorship is being liberalized and becoming more mature and reflective…