[Academiadotorg]

The rule among authors seems to be, if you can find them on a bookshelf, you can't find them in a college.

[PATRIOT1876]

They were Christian writers and that's like kryptonite to the militant atheists in charge of academia.

[left that other site]

30 years ago I had a job in a Christian Book Store.

I also worked at a Liberal Protestant Seminary in their Book Department.

At the Bookstore, the favorite Book was the Bible. We had shelves of them, KJV, Interlinear, RSV, NIV, The Living Bible, The Good News, The New American Bible(RCC), The Jerusalem Bible, Strongs Concordance, Vines, Bible Dictionaries, Bible atlases, and also books about grief, parenting, cults, meditation, prayer, politics, America, Jesus, Sunday School, Ministry, Christian Counselling, and a full line of Vacation Bible School and Sunday School supplies. (Real Life)

Meanwhile, at the seminary, the only Version of the Bible was the RSV, and the shelves were replete with books by feminists like Rosemary Reuther, Liberation Theologians like Gustav Gutierez, and Liberal Bible Critics (Textual criticism, redactive critics, etc) (Academia)

The divide was so obvious that the seminary became a place of oppression and drudgery for me, while the Bookstore “for the People” was a delight.

[Ransomed]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1045069/posts

A thread from back in the day. An essay by Catholic Christian sci-fi/speculative fiction author Gene Wolfe on Tolkien called ‘The Best Introduction to the Mountains.’

Surprisingly Gene Wolfe is pretty much considered the best of the best American speculative fiction writer going today by both ultra-libs and newer conservative sci-fi writers like John C Wright. This despite Wolfe being a traditionally minded Catholic and old white male, which are just about the worst things to be in the tiny world of contemporary sci-fi/fantasy.

Freegards