Welcome to the second episode in my series on finding resilience and courage during unexpectedly difficult times, all through the …
Fantasy For Our Time: Resilience and Courage Through Story – Finding Your Mentor
In an age of information overload, we need, more than ever, to find someone to help us make sense of it all. But there are …
Fantasy For Our Time: What Aragorn Can Teach Us About the Deep Life
One of the biggest questions of our age is what we are to make of ourselves in a post-pandemic reality. If we allow it, hardship …
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Fantasy For Our Time: The Last Kingdom and The Green Monk (Portrayals of Pagans vs Christians in Pop Culture)
I've noticed a trend in entertainment recently. It seems as though some strange anachronistic lens has been placed over history …
Fantasy For Our Time: When the Movie is Actually BETTER Than the Book
Today, I continue my examination of time in fantasy and sci-fi literature. What is time? Is it a line, a circle, or some …
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Fantasy For Our Time: Time and Identity in Fantasy Literature
Today, in this old recording from 2019, I present an honest look at the concept of time as I reflect on a few pieces of fantasy …
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Fantasy For Our Time: A Conversation with Bestselling Author Christian Cameron
Here's another throwback episode where I have an absolutely fascinating conversation with my friend Christian Cameron. Together we …
Fantasy For Our Time: Secular Sci-Fi & The Transcendent
What does it mean to be human? How do we interact with the Divine or find meaning in a universe that sometimes seems completely …
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Fantasy For Our Time Special Episode: Sample Audiobook Chapter From Nicholas Kotar’s Raven Son Series
Time, despite my best efforts to conquer it, has, yet again, conquered me! In all of my busyness, I wasn't able to sit down and …
Finding Your Mentor Through Stories
We all recognize the trope of the mentor figure in the hero's journey, right? Luke Skywalker needs both Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda to …
How a Group of Young Russians are Creating Culture with Folk Music
It's been a while since I've posted anything about Russian culture or history on my blog. There have been lots of good reasons for …
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A Hero for Our Time: Prince Dimitry Pozharsky
Does the news cycle depress you? Have you lost any hope in the emergence of a hero for our time who might direct our political …
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Anna Dostoyevsky: the Heart of Soul of Russia’s Greatest Author, Part 2
Last week, you were introduced to one of the most fascinating and fruitful romances of literary history. Feodor and Anna …
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Why Do Some Icons Have Battle Scenes?
It's a short post today, about as much as a toddler-induced headache can muster. But I found an interesting article about a …
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Constantine the Great: Russia’s Secret Tsar
The problem of power and personality is one that has fascinated people from the beginning of history. We are going to through our …
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The Rosetta Stone for Old Rus Was… a Piece of Birch Bark?
Have you read Evgenii Vodolazkin’s excellent novel Laurus? If you haven’t, you’ve deprived yourselves of a rare experience of …
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Mikhail Nesterov: A Modern Artist with an Old Soul, Part I
The end of the 19th and turn of the 20th century was a period of rich cultural growth for Russia. As the empire expanded, the …
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Heroes from Slavic Mythology: Ivan the Idiot (or the Genius?!)
This week has been even more distressing than usual. And it’s been a pretty distressing year. Frequent terrorist attacks, a …
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