Thoughts from Home and Abroad

At what age did men and women get married in Tudor England? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RdE49d2_16E

Why does Shakespeare make Juliet so young? https://rumble.com/v74cz24-in-a-nutshell-with-joseph-pearce-36-juliet-is-so-young-isnt-she-just-a-chil.html

With the re-release of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, it's a good time to revisit the Christian themes that pervaded J.R.R. Tolkien's writing... https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-return-of-the-ring

Last week C. S. Lewis went to Mars. This week he's heading for Venus! https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2026/01/c-s-lewis-venus-perelandra-joseph-pearce.html

A merrie Englishman sets forth to the Prairie Troubadour Conference to ask whether Merrie England and America are friends or foes. Is a new revolutionary war about to start? Audio File

“Out of the Silent Planet” invites us to see the way that each of the three main characters grasps, or fails to grasp, the radical new perspectives offered by the encounter with alien species in a physically strange place and a metaphysically stranger “space”; ultimately, it invites us to judge the philosophies which inform or [...]

What advice might the Holy Father receive from Father of English Poetry? https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/pearce-old-poet-advice

What does Shakespeare say about the dangers of lust? How does God pursue the sinner like a “Hound of Heaven”? What sort of men do we want our sons to become? How can we nurture a faith which is fearless? Joseph Pearce demonstrates how literary giants of the past offer an authentic vision of true [...]

Is it love or is it lustful idolatry? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yWr4QJUMiPo

What are we to make of Romeo's unwanted advances towards Rosaline? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FHRe5BKvBYk