Month: December 2017
Gothic Horror, Christian Ethos—Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black
Chad Chisholm, CIFC Director While the 2012 movie, with its countless changes and deviations from the original storyline, has shaped the most recent perceptions of Susan Hill’s gothic story The […]
Good Ballplayer, Bad Sportswriter, and Ugly Journalism
Marshall Tankersley, Student Editor In an age of instant access news (and gossip), it is all too easy to be in the position of having to discern what is truth […]
Descent into the Maelström—A Prison Experiment at Stanford University
Britton A. Taylor The 2015 film The Stanford Prison Experiment, based on the actual psychological experiment of 1971, is an incredibly moving production that tests the manner in which social […]
Melody at the Edge of Apocalypse—Music in Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon
Zachary Wheeler When I consider a world without music, it brings tears to my eyes. For me, music is my biggest passion. Music is in every fiber of my being […]
“Just a Flesh Wound”—Randomness, Relevance, and Sheer Brilliance in Monty Python
Allison Kisiel An enduring franchise that continues to influence and shape the world of comedy is the Monty Python ensemble. From 1969 to the early 1980s, the British comedy sextet […]
Finding Happiness in the Captain’s Not-So-Perfect, Double Life
Dakota Smith Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live two different lives? Have you ever wanted to split life between the wild and the plain? In […]
Men, Women, and Demons—C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters
Lillian Elmore This is the final part of our fall series on C.S. Lewis’s epistolary novel The Screwtape Letters. “She’s the sort of woman who lives for others—you can tell by their […]
The Imaginative Man—Colin Duriez discusses C.S. Lewis
Colin Duriez, Scholar and Author I first met British author and scholar Colin Duriez at the 2007 Oxonmoot conference at the University of Oxford where he was a featured speaker. […]
Most Amazing I Get Paid to Do This—A Conversation with Dr. Paul Schleifer
Priscilla Collins Dr. Paul Schleifer is Professor of English at Southern Wesleyan University where he has taught for over twenty years. His specific area of interest is in British Literature, […]
Lessons and Carols, 2017
SWU Division of Fine Arts And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.” (Matthew 28:18) Our Division of Fine […]
A Matter of Faith—The Debate on Evolution
Dakota Smith The debate on teaching the Theory of Evolution has been an example of a culture war in the United States for several decades. The criticism behind the teaching […]