More than any other aspect in the Covenant stories I find "health sense" the most appealing. Probably because it is relational. Not only are dulled eyes and heart treated to the bliss of nature's beauty but intimacy between people is acutely hightened. I am reminded of CS Lewis' _The_Great...

VF, my post was not a personal attack on you or your character. I apologize if it came across that way. Moral equivalency is not a new idea. We are told that if we hate in our heart we are guilty of murder. I don't think this means we have, physically, killed someone. I think what it does is point o...

I have also just begun Runes. I am very interested to find how SRD has grown. I don't mean style so much as ideas. 25+ years of life are bound to have influenced him. What has time done with his thoughts on human emotion and ideals? Has he worked out new answers for old problems? Refined or confirme...

I think reaction to the rape by other characters is very revealing. It has been 20 years since I read the first 2 sets but I remember the puzzlement, the way his actions were viewed as unnatural. As though the people of the Land were heart-connected in a way that we are not. The emphasis on forgiven...

I don't know what SRD intended when he formed Covenant. I do know that his story illustrates the inner battle I've encountered as a fairly new believer in Christ. The haunting of rules (law) and to obsession with self-preservation in the face of a beauty that will not release you yet requires you to...