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“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light; but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness. And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be.”
Matthew 6:19-23
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New Book by Michael D. O'Brien
Introduction by Bishop Julian Porteous, Sydney, Australia
Published by Fides et Traditio Publishers
Free shipping worldwide
www.fidestraditio.com
or from Amazon.com
The Harry Potter Series, book by book. Parental Strategies for Healthy Family Culture. Pope Benedict and Harry Potter. The War of Disinformation and Opinion. Harry Potter and the Gnostic Mind. Where Is It All Going? Twilight of the West. The Golden Compass or the Moral Compass?
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 17:21 |
Publisher's Press release
 A new novel by Michael D. O'Brien
St. Luke addressed his Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles to a man named Theophilos.
Who was Theophilos? Scripture scholars do not know, making him a fit subject for Michael O’Brien’s vivid imagination. In this fictional narrative, Theophilos is the skeptical but beloved adoptive father of St. Luke. Challenged by the startling account of the “Christos” received in the chronicle from his beloved son Luke and concerned for the newly zealous young man’s fate, Theophilos, a Greek physician and an agnostic, embarks on a search for Luke to bring him home. He is gravely concerned about the deadly illusions Luke has succumbed to regarding the incredible stories surrounding Jesus of Nazareth, a man of contradictions who has caused so much controversy throughout the Roman Empire.
Thus begins a long journey that will take Theophilos deep into the war between nations and empires, truth and myth, good and evil, and into unexpected dimensions of his very self. His quest takes the reader into four ancient civilizations—the Greek, Roman, Jewish, and that of Christianity at its birth, where he meets those who knew this man that some believe is the Messiah.
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Read more... [Theophilos—a novel]
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Written by Michael D. O'Brien
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Wednesday, 10 February 2010 15:53 |
Preface to Harry Potter and the Paganization of Culture
by Michael D. O'Brien
[published May, 2010]
This book grew out of a series of articles which were written over a ten-year period for various Christian periodicals. At first, I had no interest in reading the Harry Potter novels, and indeed felt that I had already expended considerable time researching the field of fantasy literature when writing a book on the subject in the mid-1990’s. Moreover, the constant reviews of the Potter series had given me a general sense about the stories and the popular opinions. Oceans of spilled ink and electronic text seemed to cover the pros and cons well enough. No need for me to add my opinion.
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Read more... [Preface to Harry Potter]
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 29 August 2005 17:24 |
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Welcome to the official online gallery presenting the works of painter, novelist, and essayist Michael D. O'Brien
Dear Guests,
In all my work I seek to contribute to the restoration of Christian culture. I try to express the holiness of existence and the dignity of the human person situated in an incarnational universe. Each visual image and each work of prose is an incarnation of a word, a statement of faith. At the same time, it asks the questions: what is most noble and eternal in man? Who is he? Why does he exist? And what is his eternal destiny?
I thank you for visiting and invite you to reflect on further issues in Christian art, literature, and culture by subscribing to my (somewhat irregular) newsletter.
There are more than a hundred articles, interviews, and transcripts of talks available on this site, which can be accessed by selecting the specific category under Writings in the menu on the upper left side of the home page. There are also four visual art categories for you to explore (see the categories in the Gallery menu on the left side): the Profiled Works gallery contains several pages of paintings completed during recent years, and available for purchase. The Modern and Byzantine galleries contain images painted during the past forty years, which are no longer available for purchase. In the Recently Sold gallery are images purchased within the past year. Please note that most of the galleries have several pages of "thumbnail" images. In all galleries you may click on the thumbnail for a larger version of each image.
Note to Newsletter subscribers: Several subscribers have written in to say they registered for the newsletter and have never received it. This may be due to you not receiving, or to overlooking, the auto-confirm e-mail that is sent to you upon registration. It is important to click on the confirm link in this e-mail, a procedure that prevents people from signing others up for the newsletter without their knowledge. Another reason you may not be receiving the newsletter is strict filtering of "junk-mail" by your e-mail server. In order to avoid this problem, go to your personal e-mail account on your server site, and under "permissions" or "approved" or "contacts" or "safe sender", please type in the following address from which the newsletter is sent out:
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Due to a great amount of creative work ahead of me, and many backlogged projects, I'm no longer able to send out a monthly newsletter. From time to time an occasional one will arrive in your inbox.
Michael D. O'Brien
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