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Catholic Free Shipping Word of the DayThe blog of a Catholic bookstore in California has occasional words of the day that don't mean what you think they mean.
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Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino OVA Anime Review
Gunslinger Girl
Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino OVA
Written by Yu Aida 相田 裕 Aida Yutaka
Published by Funimation
Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino OVAガンスリンガー·ガール Gansuringā Gāru
Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino OVA is a continuation of season 2 of the Gunslinger Girl anime. This OVA seems to be something of an
A Canticle for Walter Miller
Ignatius Insight published a good piece on Walter Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz for it's 50th anniversary.
The question Miller asks the reader and himself: can man escape Original Sin? Or, will man, doomed, carry it wherever he goes, whether it be into the American
10 Things You May Not Have Known about J. R. R. Tolkien
Tolkien's lectures on Beowulf were very popular, and he could recite the poem in Old English.
h/t John D Cook
First Things Twofer
Another First Things article on Pournelle's and Niven's Inferno II: Escape from Hell. I couldn't have said it better myself.
h/t Chaos Manor
Religion and Science Fiction
First Things has an article on their website [and in the April issue] regarding religious themes in science fiction, that mention a number of my favorite authors and books. These include Jerry Pournelle's and Larry Niven's Inferno and Escape from Hell, James Blish's A
No More Christian Nice Girl Book Review
No More Christian Nice Girl
by Paul Coughlin & Jennifer D. Degler, Ph.D.
$14.99 ; 177 pages
I received this book for free as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program.
I was a little nonplussed to receive No More Christian Nice Girl in the mail. I had