Month: March 2020
Requiems and Reveries: Essays on Language, Literature, and Life
CIFC Staff Dr. Chad Chisholm, professor of English and Director of the Carolina Institute for Faith and Culture, has published a collection of his essays, Requiems and Reveries: Essays on Language, […]
Word of the Day: Invigilate
Today’s word of the day, thanks to the joint BBC and BBC America television series Ripper Street, is invigilate. Invigilate is an intransitive verb (so it does not take a […]
Word of the Day: Wantwit
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Anu Garg and A.Word.A.Day on the Wordsmith.org website, is wantwit. According to Garg, the noun means “A fool; one lacking good sense” and […]
Word of the Day: Peonage
Today’s word of the day is peonage. According to www.dictionary.com, it means “the condition or service of a peon” or “the practice of holding persons in servitude or partial slavery, […]
Sitting and Chatting With Brent Dongell
Brent Dongell is a professor at Southern Wesleyan University and has been for two years. He works for the Department of Religion, and he definitely sets his standards high. He […]
A Vignette of a Life Amongst a Thousand: A Review of 1917
The last film to bring tears to my eyes was 2017’s Dunkirk, mostly because I am of a generation of Christopher Nolan fan boys who cannot see him doing any wrong. […]
Word of the Day: Job
Today’s word of the day is job, but not in its usual sense. I came across this today on the www.thoughtcatalog.com website in a list called “500 Archaic Words That […]