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Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost is the great long, English poem. It is a beautiful, penetrating, and challenging look at human nature, the relationship between God, man, and the angels, and the relationship between men and women. John Milton’s poetry evokes the powerful temptation contained in Satan’s rhetoric to make the reader experience the Fall within himself as Adam eats of the fruit. The poem reveals the stark contrast between Satan’s lies and God’s truth. We face God’s hard justice but rejoice in His mercy. We are reminded that in the midst of decay and turmoil there is hope.

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A Dissident Then and Now: Solzhenitsyn

November 13, 2024

The ideas of Marx and Lenin ring with pomp and fervor, claiming to issue in a new era of justice and peace. How, then, can the ideas that have led to incomprehensible suffering and the deaths of tens of millions of human beings be justified? Simple: they can’t. Rooted in the ideas of Marx and Lenin are camps like the one on the Solovetsky Islands, a collectivized forced labor prison during the ...

By John Worachek

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True Liberty in Paradise Lost

November 7, 2024

John Milton’s Paradise Lost is the great long poem in the English language. The epic poem tells the story of the Fall, but it starts with the fall of the angels who followed Satan. It is the tragic tale of Satan’s jealousy and his desire to corrupt that which God loves because he could not defeat God in battle. Milton opens with the scene in Hell as Satan awakes on the fiery lake. He gathers hi...

By John Case

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Beethoven’s Fifth Transformed Music

October 31, 2024

Few symphonies rival the popularity of Beethoven’s fifth. The work has made its way across every major concert hall in the world, influenced today’s popular music, and is heard in film and television. The piece is so well known that it’s nearly impossible to whistle the opening’s theme, without someone recognizing it. But as with all popular music, and especially in the case of classical music, on...

By Michael Eller

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