An Unexpected Journal: The Imaginative Harvest of Holly Ordway:Celebrating the Difference a Teacher Can Make

by Michael Ward, Holly Ordway, Donald T. Williams

Overview

Planting the Seeds of Imagination

Holly Ordway has established herself as one of the preeminent
voices in the field of cultural apologetics. Her ability to engage with
the imagination is clearly demonstrated through her own scholarly work,
most recently the paradigm-shifting Tolkien's Modern Reading, but her
influence was critical in the founding of An Unexpected Journal as well.
This collection of essays, poetry, and stories demonstrates her
wide-ranging impact that is truly bearing a fruitful harvest.

Contributors

• "Maps," My Map by Jesse W. Baker on the importance of poetry.


• "Contrary Winds: Tolkien's Priority of Faith and Family" by Donald W.
  Catchings, Jr. on Tolkien's personal values, and "The Call" on the
  teacher's call.


• A review of Tolkien's Modern Reading by Annie Crawford


• "Drawing the Drawing Out of Me" by Virginia de la Lastra on a pleasant
  surprise.


• "Ordway's Myth-Busting Research: Tolkien's Modern Reading (A Review)"
  by Ryan Grube on a paradigm shift.


• "Poetry as Prayer, Imagination the Spark to Worship and Service:
  Ordway's Review of Gerard Manley Hopkins in Word on Fire's Ignatian
  Collection" by Seth Myers on contemplation, poetry, and missionizing.


• "A Passage to Something Better" by Annie Nardone on Tolkien's approach
  to virtue.


• An interview with Holly Ordway


• "Middle-earth and the Middle Ages" by Joseph Pearceon the influence of
  Beowulf.


• "Dr. Ordway's Visual Guide to Paragraph Structure" by Josiah Peterson
  on creating meaning.


• "Lost and Found" by Theresa Pihl on changing perspective;


• "Learning Writing at Writespace" by Jamie Danielle Portwood on the
  importance of community.


• "Gandalf: The Prophetic Mentor" by Zak Schmoll on the Defeat of
  Sauron.


• "A Case of Mistaken Identity" by Jason M. Smith on our great
  misconception.


• "Peak Middle-earth: Why Mount Doom is not the Climax of The Lord of
  the Rings" by Michael Ward


• "Echo and Narcissus" by Clark Weidner on the goodness of reality.


• "Some Real Magic: Taliessin Lectureth in the School of the Poets" and
  "The Challenge of 'The Republic'" by Donald T. Williams on poetic
  imagination.


• "Unveiling Reality Through the Imagination" by Jared Zimmerer on a
  strategy to fight meaninglessness.

Cover Illustration by Virginia de la Lastra
Advent 2021, Volume 4, Issue 4
270 pages

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781668522912
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	12/05/2021
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

An Unexpected Journal seeks to demonstrate the truth of Christianity through both reason and the imagination to engage the culture from a Christian worldview.