Before Tolkien 5: TWILIGHT OF THE GODS – Ron Dart
Ron Dart completes his exegesis of Richard Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung" with a reflection on the final act, "Twilight of the Gods."
Previous in this series:
Before Tolkien 1 – Richard Wagner's THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG: Then and Now
Before Tolkien 2 – Richard Wagner's RHINE GOLD
Before Tolkien 3: Wagner's VALKYRIE
Before Tolkien 4: Tolkien, Wager & SIEGFRIED – Ron Dart
No Enduring City – David Bentley Hart
Editor's note: One of our contributors, Brian Zahnd, declared the following article the best thing he read in 2013. He says, "It's awards season and on Christmas Eve I'm prepared to declare David Bentley Hart's essay No Enduring...
Plato’s Cave: A Christmas Story — Brian Zahnd
Plato’s Cave: A Christmas StoryBrian Zahnd Four hundred years before the birth of Jesus, history’s greatest philosopher gave the world an enduring allegory. I’m talking about Plato and his famous allegory of the cave. Plato said we are like prisoners chained...
Contemplative Responses to our World – Part 3 – Jeff Imbach
Editor's Introduction - This article represents part 3 of a 3-part series by Jeff Imbach, a founding member of Soulstream, a dispersed contemplative community that offers training in spiritual direction and 'living from the heart.'...
The Sheep and Goats – or – “Get the hell away from me!” – by Caleb Miller
Matthew 25:31-33 - When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from...
The patriarch and the pope: the real difference between Phil Robertson and Pope Francis – Ben Irwin
Editor's Note: One of our Clarion Readers/Contributors suggested we post Ben Irwin's response to the "Duck-Phil-A Wars" as a balancing piece to the 'I'm second' interview with Phil we had posted earlier. Here it is: The patriarch and the...
Eric Voegelin and the ‘Gnostic’ Temptation – by Ron Dart
Voegelin is a lodestar to thinking men who seek a restoration of political science on the classic and Christian basis. - Anthony Harrigan Modest doubt is a beacon of the wise. - Shakespare When I was doing my undergraduate studies in the...
West of Shinar – by Blindman at the Gate (Brian Zahnd)
West of Shinarby Blindman at the Gate God said, “Let there be.”Existence. Life. Awareness.Good, very good.A man called Mankind.A woman called Mother-of-All.They bore and wore the Imago Deo.Walked in the Garden with God. Then something went wrong.Paradise lost.Moved to...
2 Corinthians 5:21 — Panel discussion with Andrew Klager, Michael Harden and Brad Jersak
2 Cor. 5:21 – Andrew Klager, Michael Hardin, and Brad Jersak Andrew Klager is an Orthodox historian and theologian who teaches at a number of schools in British Columbia, including the University of the Fraser Valley and Trinity Western University. Among...
Contemplative Responses to our World – Part 2 – Jeff Imbach
Editor's Introduction: This article is part two of a three part series by Jeff Imbach, a founding member of Soulstream. Soulstream is a dispersed contemplative community that offers training in spiritual direction and 'living from the heart.'...
Contemplative Responses to our World – Part 1 – Jeff Imbach
Editor's Introduction - This article represents part 1 of a 3-part series by Jeff Imbach, a founding member of Soulstream, a dispersed contemplative community that offers training in spiritual direction and 'living from the heart.' This...