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Post Tagged 'Paradise Lost'

C.S. Lewis and the Dance of Masculine and Feminine

Debates about gender within and without the Church tend to operate on a hidden fear: If gender is real in some way, then that might lead to an artificially rigid understanding of gender roles—for example, women must stay in the kitchen and men must work outside the home, as if every age were the 1950s, complete with Sunbeam Mixmasters and assembly lines. Continue Reading...

The Satanic Virtues

I’ve been rereading Milton’s Paradise Lost. I am not alone in this; earlier this year, every time I checked Twitter, someone was commenting on Paradise Lost. There seemed to be a gravitational pull toward Milton’s epic. Continue Reading...