Archive - Jason Farley's Substack

Apples like Ninjas

Written After Seeing Shon’s Overproductive Lemon Trees

Jun 18 •

Smurf Communism

At first glance, The Smurfs seems like a simple lighthearted cartoon.

Jun 17 •

Vintage Nostalgia and Existential Dislodgment

Walker Percy on Old Coca Cola Signs

Jun 13 •

Imaginative Participation in the Sub-Structure of Reality

Jun 12 •

Monsters and Tolkien

The Monsters and the Critics

Jun 11 •

Tolkien's Insight

Jun 10 •

The Quadrivium: Number, Order, and Wisdom

Part 1 in a series of posts on the Quadrivium

Jun 2 •

May 2025

When the Sky is Iron

When the sky is iron and the grave dirt’s heavy. When the wait’s been long and groaning only echoes, and the present time’s not worthy of what’s coming…

May 29 •

The First Business of a Story

According to CS Lewis

May 24 •

Why C.S. Lewis Wrote The Screwtape Letters as Fiction

May 23 •

He Must Increase

I preached at my church this last Sunday on John the Baptist’s declaration “He must increase.

May 21 •

Myth and the Christian Imagination

In the mythopoetic tradition of the Inklings—especially in the writings and thought of C.S.

May 19 •

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