Shadowlands Dispatch
Shadowlands Dispatch, Melissa Cain Travis, Annie Crawford, Megan Rials, Logres Institute, Rebekah E. ValeriusShadowlands Dispatch is a magazine dedicated to cultural apologetics. Our team: Lanie Anderson, MDiv; Julie Miller, PhD; Melissa Travis, PhD; and Rebekah Valerius, MA
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“Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.”
Book Review: "Travel By Star" by Paul Scott Grill
For this month’s “Original Essay,” Annie Crawford offers an insightful review of the fantasy novel “Travel By Star” by Paul Scott Grill. This piece speaks not only to readers but to writers as well, as she explores what makes for good story...
Introducing the Logres Institute Certificate in C.S. Lewis Studies
Annie Crawford is a cultural apologist, a teacher, and the Director of the C.S. Lewis Studies Certificate for the Logres Institute. Below is her interview discussing why C.S. Lewis serves as our modern "British Boethius” and her new eight-c...
For the Sheer Love of a Thing: In Defense of the Amateur by Rebekah Valerius
In this month’s “Field Notes”, Rebekah Valerius explores the original meaning of “amateur” through the lens of G.K. Chesterton, the BBC series “Detectorists”, and professional philosopher Zena Hitz. She argues that pursuing something simply...
Part Two: Inhabited Apologetics Inspired by C.S. Lewis
In this series, Joel Park engages C.S. Lewis’s distinction between ‘looking at’ and ‘looking along’ to reconsider the standard apologetic approach that is solely analytical. In the first installment, Park argued that while this kind of defe...
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Shadowlands Dispatch is a magazine dedicated to cultural apologetics. Leadership team: Lanie Anderson, MDiv; Julie Miller, PhD; Melissa Travis, PhD; and Rebekah Valerius, MA
Assistant Professor at HCU. Co-author of The Reconstruction Project: Recovering Truth and Rebuilding Faith (2026); author of Thinking God's Thoughts (2022) and Science and the Mind of the Maker (2018). Fellow at Discovery Institute.
Cultural Apologist | Classical Educator | Lewis Scholar "The end of all endeavor is to be happy at home." - Samuel Johnson
Single Christian writer, literary scholar, poet, and lawyer commenting on the arts, dating life, fantasy literature, and cultural issues.
The Logres Institute for Classical Liberal Studies equips teachers to transmit the Western Tradition to the next generation. We want to help you get the education your college should have provided.
“The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even in acquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy like a bird in spring.” ~G.K. Chesterton
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