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    Author: Dr. Holly Ordway

    Dr. Holly Ordway is the Cardinal Francis George Fellow of Faith and Culture at the Word on Fire Institute. She is also Visiting Professor of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University at Houston Baptist University; she holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages, Apologetics and the Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach to Defending the Faith (Emmaus Road, 2017) and Not God’s Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms (Ignatius, 2014). Dr. Ordway is also a published poet, and a Subject Editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies. Her academic work focuses on the writings of the Inklings, especially C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Dr. Ordway is also Visiting Professor of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University, Subject Editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies, and a published poet. Her academic work focuses on imaginative apologetics and the writings of the Inklings, especially C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Learn more at HollyOrdway.com

    Greetings from the Institute

    Dear Institute Members, May is Mary’s month – dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. In his poem “The May Magnificat,” the great Jesuit poet Gerard Manley…

    Dr. Holly Ordway May 22, 2023

    Greetings from the Institute

    Dear Institute Members, Happy Easter! Even though we have already celebrated Easter Day, it is now Eastertide, a season comprising the fifty days following the…

    Dr. Holly Ordway April 17, 2023

    Greetings from the Institute

    Dear Institute Members, The season of Lent has now begun, a season during which the Church encourages and challenges us to grow spiritually, through prayer,…

    Dr. Holly Ordway March 13, 2023

    Greetings from the Institute

    Dear WOFI Members, In a letter to his son Christopher, J.R.R. Tolkien recommended that he “make a habit of the ‘praises.’” Specifically, he recommended memorizing…

    Dr. Holly Ordway October 28, 2022

    Greetings from the Institute

    Dear Institute Members, One of the eight Principles of Word on Fire is leading with beauty: using the ‘way of beauty’ to lead people to contemplation…

    Dr. Holly Ordway July 23, 2022

    Greetings from the Institute

    Dear Institute Members, I’m pleased to call your attention to the new series of devotionals that begins this week in your member newsletter. The theme…

    Dr. Holly Ordway January 24, 2022
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