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Amending John Senior’s 1000 Good Books list
Relax, I only tackle The Nursery Years. My recommended reading for ages 2-10 with links. And building a Christian imagination to withstand the onslaught…
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Will Literature Save Us?
Are we fetishizing “classic” children’s books?
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The Devil in Peter Pan
What's really going on in this story? Part II
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Avoid this book for your next baby shower and give this instead
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It’s Time for More Christian Civilization, Not Less: the Danger of Paul Kingsnorth’s Ortho-Romanticism
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Llama, Llama Gaslit by Mama
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Author of "Love You Forever" Despairs of Life Altogether
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Review of Paul Kingsnorth's Against the Machine (published at Crisis Magazine)
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Are TLM Catholics Elitists?
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Peter Pan, Neverland's Underbelly, and Rethinking Childhood "Classics"
Maybe some books are best saved for adulthood.
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The Complicated History of Childhood Reading: Part I
On Sam Leith’s The Haunted Wood; and rethinking the Western canon of children’s literature
Dec 10, 2025
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Stop Praising Your Child
And start singing folk songs instead.
Nov 24, 2025
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Review of Paul Kingsnorth's Against the Machine (published at Crisis Magazine)
What is good in the book is not very original, and what is original is not very good.
Nov 12, 2025
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Is the Modern “Homesteading” Movement Romantic? Part II
And the unexpected reversal of ugliness in my hometown in New Mexico.
Nov 5, 2025
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Is the Modern “Homesteading” Movement a Romantic Dream?
One reader's thoughtful comment got me thinking about this question.
Oct 28, 2025
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Author of "Love You Forever" Despairs of Life Altogether
It's actually not paradoxical at all.
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