Archive for September, 2005

GodSpy Interview with Caleb Steagall

September 19th, 2005

Go here for David L. Jones’ refreshing interview with Caleb Steagall, editor and co-founder of the wonderful online magazine, The New Pantagruel, a regular read for us at Idylls Press–not only for their inveterate good sense, but for the sheer joy these fellows exhibit in the wielding of wild and whirling words.
To whet [...]

GodSpy interview with writer David Scott

September 9th, 2005

Here’s an excerpt from sn excellent interview: with David Scott, author of The Catholic Passion: Rediscovering the Power and the Beauty of the Faith.
This church, this faith, is more than 2,000 years old. It’s easy for us to forget our heritage or to think we’ve heard it all before. For example, there was an [...]

Roger Ebert on Evil in Film and Art

September 1st, 2005

Any writer or artist who attempts, in a realistic fashion, to deal with the subject of human evil has to strike a precarious balance between sugar-coating and exploiting. Much Christian writing in recent times has tilted to the sugary, unfortunately, which paradoxically serves to shortchange the staggering power of God’s grace; much postmodern [...]