Central to Tolkien’s ideas about Fantasy is this—the real world is not a very nice place to live in. It is a place filled with ugliness, with industrialization, with AI surveillance states that are more interested in putting down a compliant populace than in nurturing intelligent, virtuous citizens of a polis. To want to escape from this…

Thank you for your wisdom, Fr. Stephen Freeman!

“The battle of Modernity is not with our eyes but with our hearts. The failure of wonder hardens the heart destroying our capacity for giving thanks. Fr. Alexander Schmemann said, “Anyone capable of giving thanks is capable of salvation.” Its opposite is also true. The giving of thanks, the …

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