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October 2013

October 31, 2013

This Halloween, Read a Scary Story and Embrace Inscrutability

If your sense of myth has atrophied, a ghastly tale may help you to come...

October 30, 2013

Fear’s Great Revelation

Perhaps our deepest modern fear is the collapse of society, but if recent films and...

October 21, 2013

Want to Love Your Neighbor? Read Fiction.

" In literature, through a subtle mystery, we become other people while remaining ourselves."

October 18, 2013

The Problem with Social Media According to ‘Fahrenheit 451’

"The best books -- like the best music or television or movies or comics or...

October 15, 2013

Living the Epic Drama In Short Stories

"While Christians ought to remember that their lives participate in the grand "novel" of redemption,...

September 2013

September 25, 2013

Oprah Puts Rob Bell on Her Spiritual A-Team

"People read Oprah recommendations. They think about them and talk about them. That means a...

September 25, 2013

The Kiddy Pool: Parental Ambition and ‘The White Queen’

"It’s nearly impossible to love and raise children without dreaming of their futures, without imagining...

September 06, 2013

God and Country Music: “Sin City,” 40 Years after Gram Parsons

"Parsons figured out how to merge the old and new, sacred and saeculum (the current...

September 03, 2013

ELSEWHERE: C. S. Lewis’s Medieval Modern Imagination

Over at The Imaginative Conservative, Stratford Caldecott has a delightful, intelligent look at C. S....

September 03, 2013

An Invitation to Dig: The Legacy of Seamus Heaney

"For Heaney, the very existence and essence of poetry stands against the idea of an...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Not A Fan of Fan Fiction? Some Things To Consider

"It's interesting that fan fiction’s recent upsurge has coincided with our culture’s changing assumptions about...

August 22, 2013

Should Pastors (or any of us) Read the Word on an iPad?

"What message am I sending to my students by reading from my phone instead of...

August 21, 2013

Defeating Gnostic Forces In Fantasy Fiction

“Star Wars” and “Firebird” space-opera author Kathy Tyers shares how God rebooted her own theological...

August 14, 2013

Reza Aslan’s Grand Inquisitor

"Dostoyevsky isn’t telling us that the truth was in ourselves, he is telling us that...

August 13, 2013

New Adult Fiction’s Unhealthy Marketing Gimmick

What is "New" Adult Fiction and should we read it?

August 12, 2013

How Should We Then Upgrade Christian Fiction?

“Why don’t we have more ‘unsafe’ Christian fiction?" complaints aren’t working. First readers must consider...

August 09, 2013

10 Reasons Cormac McCarthy and Ridley Scott’s “The Counselor” is Probably Going to be Terrible

I love Cormac McCarthy, a lot. Ever since I read Blood Meridian for a Freshman Composition class...

August 08, 2013

ELSEWHERE: A Missed Connection for the Ages

It's interesting to think about literary genres "coming of age." Often it has to do...

August 06, 2013

The Kiddy Pool: Lions and Little Foxes

We cannot escape the traumas of life. We can only follow our Master through them.

August 05, 2013

The Magical Worlds of ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Left Behind’

Both of these bestselling book series feature magical worlds, good-versus-evil battles, and “wizard”-like heroes. But...

August 02, 2013

Canceling the Apocalypse? Cosmic Monsters and Tiny Humans in ‘Pacific Rim’

To what extent does Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim hew to H. P. Lovecraft's cosmicism,...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Transfiguration Avenue: Michael Chabon and Relearning to See the World

"I love Chabon, but reserve my nightstand long-term for someone else."

July 17, 2013

ELSEWHERE: How Should We Write When Words Are Cheap?

Should writers be 'compensated' for their words? How important is your 'voice' as an author?...

July 16, 2013

The Kiddy Pool: Lowe’s versus George Herbert

My husband and I are working on some small home maintenance projects right now, little...

July 11, 2013

The Future as Myth: Celebrating 100 Years of Cordwainer Smith

Cordwainer Smith is a writer who reminds us that Christians have been and still can...

July 09, 2013

Superman: Not Just a Man, but a Just Man

"Whether or not Christians feel comfortable thinking of Superman as a Christ-figure, we can at...

July 05, 2013

ELSEWHERE: A Feminist Defense Of C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis is one of Christendom's most beloved authors, due to works like Mere Christianity,...

July 05, 2013

ELSEWHERE: Terry Eagleton Reflects on American Sincerity

This week, Terry Eagleton joined a proud and storied tradition of European intellectuals by rhapsodizing...

July 02, 2013

Why Does Science Fiction Invent So Many Foreign Gods?

"Flannery O’Connor famously asserted that the American South in which she lived was Christ-haunted; science...

July 02, 2013

The Kiddy Pool: Taking A Slower Family Path

"Parenting often seems about helping children 'get ahead,' accruing social capital in childhood to translate...

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