On Having Standards

May 19, 2026.Reading time 5 minutes.

I’m very particular about what media I consume. There’s certain music I don’t listen to, certain movies and TV I don’t watch, and certain books I don’t read…
By Ian Wilson

12 Rules For Writing Adventure Stories

May 12, 2026.Reading time 11 minutes.

Well, here are my 12 rules for writing adventure stories. Feel free to follow, or discard them at your own convenience, whatever fits your writing style…
By Ian Wilson

Faithful Friday: Julian of Norwich

May 8, 2026.Reading time 3 minutes.

In 1373, at the age of thirty, Julian fell ill with a mysterious illness that threatened to take her very life. She was spared, however, by the mercy of God, who healed her and revealed Himself to her in visions…
By Ian Wilson

Why Camelot?

May 5, 2026.Reading time 3 minutes.

All English kings have tried to claim some legitimate connection to him, by blood or by some other means. But what made me, personally, choose to write about Camelot?
By Ian Wilson

Faithful Friday: Pope Miltiades

April 10, 2026.Reading time 5 minutes.

Pope Miltiades’ reign as Pope of Rome was marked by change…
By Ian Wilson

Get Used To Disappointment

March 26, 2026.Reading time 9 minutes.

I think most people in the First Century were disappointed with Jesus, even His followers. That was part of the point of His ministry on Earth: to overturn expectations…
By Ian Wilson

He’s Not A Monster

March 7, 2026.Reading time 5 minutes.

I will start by saying the Beast is not a monster; the Beast is you and I…
By Ian Wilson

He’s Not The Hero You Think He Is

February 28, 2026.Reading time 5 minutes.

I’m gonna come right out and say it: no, Gaston is not the hero of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and making him into one misunderstands the plot and cheapens true masculinity…
By Ian Wilson

It is NOT Useless!

February 21, 2026.Reading time 8 minutes.

Fiction, you see, is not entirely “fake”. It deals with truth through a narrative format. It is the most effective, most subversive form of propaganda…
– By Ian Wilson

Faithful Friday – Absalom Jones

February 13, 2026.Reading time 6 minutes.

As the first pastor and founding member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Reverend Jones held an important position in the history of the Church in America…
By Ian Wilson

Faithful Friday: Saint Adrian

January 9, 2026.Reading time 3 minutes.

Seventy years after the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons by St. Augustine of Canterbury, St. Adrian stepped onto England’s green shores to continue the work started there….
By Ian Wilson

Faithful Friday: St. John of the Cross

December 12, 2025.Reading time 4 minutes.

By Ian Wilson … The celebrated mystic, St. John of the Cross, was born Juan de Yepes y Alvarez on June 24, 1542, in Fontiveros, Spain. Even as a child, John knew he wanted to live the ascetic life. After the untimely death of his father and older brother when John was only three years old, John was sent to a boarding school for poor orphaned children. There, he received a religious education, and served as an acolyte at an Augustinian monastery.

The Delivery of Doom

November 25, 2025.Reading time 21 minutes.

By Ian Wilson … It was hard to describe; it wasn’t human, nor was it like any animal I had ever seen, like a parody of biology, a satanic practical joke. Its gawky body was ink-black. Multiple eyes blazed out of its head. Its mouth, if you could call it a mouth, was a mass of dripping tentacles. I screamed. Holding my rosary aloft, I shouted, “In Christ’s name, get back!”

No, Halloween Is Not Satanic

October 31, 2025.Reading time 7 minutes.

By Ian Wilson … If you read the title of this article, you already know the conclusion I’m coming to. Halloween has been celebrated in Western Christianity, particularly in Britain, for hundreds of years.

Faithful Friday – St. Valentine

February 14, 2025.Reading time 2 minutes.

By Ian Wilson What is known about St. Valentine is scant and open to conjecture, shrouded in legend. It is difficult to separate fact from fable, to the point that in 1969, the Roman Catholic Church removed Valentine from their official calendar due to lack of evidence for his existence. Valentine may not even have […]

Faithful Friday – Gregory of Nyssa

January 10, 2025.Reading time 5 minutes.

By Ian Wilson (G) Considered the most astute of the three Cappadocian Fathers, the man who would become Gregory of Nyssa was born into a large, devout Christian family sometime in the fourth century. His older brother was none other than Basil of Caesarea, another one of the Cappadocian Fathers. Together with Gregory of Nazianzus, […]

Red One: Law and Gospel at Christmastide

January 2, 2025.Reading time 8 minutes.

By Ian Wilson Like millions of Americans, I saw the movie Red One over the Christmas holiday. It was a great film, and like all good stories, it revealed an even deeper truth about the nature of reality. I must warn you that this article will contain numerous spoilers, so if you haven’t seen Red […]

Faithful Friday – St. Nicholas

December 6, 2024.Reading time 4 minutes.

By Ian Wilson (G) One of the most beloved saints of the church was born sometime in the third century AD to wealthy parents in the town of Patara in Asian Minor (modern Turkey). Nicholas’ devout parents raised him the nature and admonition of the Lord, and due to their influence, the young Nicholas dedicated […]

Faithful Friday: Henry Muhlenberg

September 6, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

Though he was the forgotten preacher of the First Great Awakening, Henry Muhlenberg left an indelible mark on the Lutheran Church of the United States

Faithful Friday: Saint John Bosco

August 16, 2024.Reading time 3 minutes.

By Ian Wilson John Bosco was perhaps one of the more eccentric saints of the Catholic Church, though can one truly be a saint without being a bit odd? As a young lad in Sardinia (Italy), Bosco saw a performance by a circus troupe and was instantly obsessed. He began training himself in acrobatics and […]