Thoughts from Home and Abroad

Offering a sneak preview of what's newly posted to the Inner Sanctum...

Pride is always prejudiced... Shylock or Pride and Prejudice #inanutshellwithjosephpearce #williamshakespeare #booktalk

How G. K. Chesterton's response to H. G. Wells' Outline of History played an important part in C. S. Lewis' conversion to Christianity... The Everlasting Man and the Conversion of C. S. Lewis - Memoria College

Seeing Shylock with pride and prejudice is not seeing him at all... In a Nutshell with Joseph Pearce 17: For the love of ducats or his daughter?

📖✨ Romeo & Juliet Like You’ve Never Seen Before! ✨🎭 Share with your friends… Your high school teen can join me this summer for an unforgettable deep dive into Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet! 🌹⚔️ Is this just a tragic love story, or is there something deeper at play? Through Shakespeare’s Catholic lens, we’ll explore themes [...]

📢 Unlock the Catholic Meaning of The Lord of the Rings with Joseph Pearce! ✨📖 Your teen can join me this summer for a LIVE, interactive high school course exploring the profound Catholic vision of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings! 🌿💍 📚 Tolkien himself described his epic masterpiece as “a fundamentally religious and [...]

Disconnecting from gadgets to reconnect with God... Some simple keys to media fasting during Lent

As my personal website is designed to be the one-stop place to check out all that I'm doing, it's not my usual practice to post other people's writing. I am making an exception in this case because some "good news" is simply too good not to be shared as widely as possible... Further Up and [...]

If people find the truth insulting, should the truth be silenced? Insulting Shakespeare ~ The Imaginative Conservative

All homes need walls. Without walls, there is no home. But are there walls that need pulling down? In praise of the walls that we need – Catholic World Report