Peter Milward SJ

Fr Milward was one of the two tutors in the 2006 Oxford summer school on "Shakespeare's Secret". Writing in 2007 he... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Stratford) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/667 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:09:01 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/660/t/-Twilight-and-the-VAMPIRE-craze.html ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Stratford) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/660 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:11:16 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/437/t/Thought-some-might-find-it-helpful-it-was-new-to-me-.html I also found a letter in the next month's magazine, taking it to task for promoting the book ...

Anyway, the author is evidently a Catholic woman who used not to let her children read the books, then was challenged to read them for herself and changed her mind.

One may find information, reviews,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (hr1982) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/437 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:15:39 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/440/t/Timetravel-and-Journeyman-.html
There is also now the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Stratford) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/440 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:45:26 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/439/t/L-Osservatore-Romano-on-HP.html
In an article signed by Edoardo Rialti, L'Osservatore says that many have tried to establish a parallel between Rowling's main character and "the great fantasy masterpieces of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and Clive Staples Lewis, the Christian authors of the most beloved fables of the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Laurie) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/439 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:07:20 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/442/t/Narnia-s-Secret.html here. ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Stratford) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/442 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:12:47 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/441/t/The-Golden-Compass-film-.html The Golden Compass. The Catholic League has been encouraging people to boycott it for a number of weeks.

Yesterday, I started seeing references to the bishops' website's review,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (hr1982) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/441 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:03:22 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/443/t/Any-thoughts-on-the-outing-of-Dumbledore-.html feeds@yuku.com (hr1982) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/443 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:52:36 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/444/t/Harry-Potter-the-Alchemical-interpretation.html John Granger led the way, but I think others are finding this interpretation of HP convincing:

http://www.harrypotterforseekers.com/articles/liberatingalchemy.php

Rowling as a Christian (symbolic) alchemist? What do people think?

Meanwhile the anti-Potter lobby trundles on:
http://www.lifesite.net/features/harrypotter/ ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Stratford) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/444 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:20:22 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/445/t/Religion-in-comics-conference-.html
I thought this might of interest to you and your colleagues in the world of SF and fantasy criticism:


Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels
Presented by the Luce Program in Visual Arts & Literature
Boston University Department of Religion
April 12-14, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS –

Examples abound. Preacher is the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Stratford) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/445 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:08:51 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/448/t/V-for-Vendetta.html
Next, I am renting Children of Men ASAP based on Laurie's comments at the most recent post and will look forward to reading what's added there. I enjoyed Zizek as an MA student (in the States) when I read him for a theory class and thought the print... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (NicoleCoonradt) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/448 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:07:22 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/446/t/Children-of-Men.html The Children of Men (2006, Dir. Alfonso Cuaron)? It is a bleak yet hopeful dystopian film based loosely on a novel by P.D. James, who is a small 'o' orthodox Anglican Christian. The Wikipedia entry tells me that the title is taken from Psalm 90(89): 3 "Thou turnest men back to the dust, and sayest "Turn back, O children of men!". James described... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Laurie) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/446 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:44:23 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/449/t/Tolkien-and-Latin-Mass-petition-of-1966.html
Does anyone have any leads, or knowledge, of this?

Ted Smith ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Edward Smith) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/449 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:36:32 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/438/t/Battlestar-Galactica-and-current-SF-on-TV.html feeds@yuku.com (Stratford) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/438 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:28:03 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/450/t/Exeter-College-Oxford-Tolkien-Conference-Aug-06.html In the meantime there is an interesting Tolkien conference in Germany in May 2007, which I have announced on the Noticeboard. [SC]

feeds@yuku.com (Stratford) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/450 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:52:23 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/455/t/Walter-Hooper-on-Lewis-and-Tolkien.html

Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: An Interview with Walter Hooper

Walter Hooper: I think one of the most illuminating comments I have ever heard about Lewis was from someone who hadn’t met him but who could understand human motivation very well and who also was a writer, and that was the Pope.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Charles) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/455 Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:36:24 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/454/t/Tolkien-on-God.html The Da Vinci Code brought some attention to Christology which, in terms of an intelligent cultural discussion, really cannot be separated from ideas about God in the broadest sense. I came across this passage on Tolkien in James Schall's book On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs. Notice that the topic of theological interest is on the ontological... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Charles) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/454 Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:21:08 GMT http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/452/t/Star-Wars.html
They Had it Coming
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

I am spurred to write by frustration with the professional film critics who have been moaning on about the allegedly bad acting (actually it isn’t that bad) and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Stratford) http://secondspring.yuku.com/topic/452 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:58:56 GMT