Parable & Middle-Earth: “The Good News of the Return of the King” ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Bradley J. Birzer

Michael Jahosky argues in his new book that J.R.R. Tolkien engaged in the telling of a parable, and that the great author wanted to create Christian art and mythology, not Christian propaganda…

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/08/good-news-return-king-michael-jahosky-bradley-birzer.html

Thomas Jefferson and “A Little Rebellion Now and Then” ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Clyde Wilson

Nowhere to be seen now are the old Jeffersonians, once a major American type: rebellious men who dared defend the rights of themselves and their communities from outside impositions. But buried somewhere deep in the American soul is a tiny ember of Jeffersonian democracy that now and then gives off an uncertain, feeble, and futile spark…

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/05/little-rebellion-now-and-then-thomas-jefferson-clyde-wilson.html

Writing as a Moral Act ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By David Hein

Success in writing requires the virtue of temperance, self-mastery, which refers to an internal action less dreary and passive than mere abstinence. Temperance means disciplining oneself in order to realize one’s greatest potential.

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/08/writing-moral-act-david-hein.html