Stratford Caldecott is the chief editor of Second Spring Journal and Second Spring Books for the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts , and directs the College’s Center for Faith and Culture in Oxford. He is on the editorial boards of Communio, The Chesterton Review, and Oasis. His writing has also appeared in the National Catholic Register, Parabola, Catholic World Report, Inside the Vatican, St Austin Review, Logos, and Touchstone. A Fellow of St Benet’s Hall in Oxford and of the Royal Society of Arts in London, he is the author of several books, most recently The Power of the Ring: The Spiritual Vision Behind the Lord of the Rings and The Seven Sacraments: Entering the Mysteries of God (both Crossroad). He is married to the writer Leonie Caldecott.