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May 2013

May 17, 2013

The Great or Not-so-great Gatsby?

Words and images are two different media, so a novel and a movie are two...

May 13, 2013

What is a nation?

As college classes, including my own, conclude for the Summer, I will reveal an academic...

May 03, 2013

The Freedom of a Christian

What's the best book by Martin Luther to start with? The answer is simple: The...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Tolkien’s Imagination

Arman J. Partamian has written a fascinating piece entitled "J.R.R. Tolkien and the Catholic Imagination." ...

April 17, 2013

I bet I can make you cry

You may be all macho, sophisticated, cynical, and Stoic, but I have found a sequence...

April 16, 2013

Lars Walker’s new Viking novel: free

Lars Walker, who frequents this blog, is a notable novelist who is also a Christian,...

April 08, 2013

The end of [fill in the blank]

Carlos Lozada writes about the publishing trend of books that announce "the end" of something. ...

April 02, 2013

Shakespeare the capitalist

One of the many unfortunate legacies of Romanticism (there were some fortunate ones as well)...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

Jonathan Swift and the Jesus stompers

You have doubtless heard about the college that had students stomp on the name of...

March 27, 2013

The woman who anointed the feet of Jesus

Thanks to Frank Sonnek for introducing me to this sonnet about the sinful woman in...

March 21, 2013

Lars Walker on Christian Fantasy

Friends, you simply must read the essay that friend-of-this-blog Lars Walker has written on Christian...

March 15, 2013

Alister McGrath’s new biography of C. S. Lewis

The British theologian and apologist Alister McGrath has written a new biography of C. S....

March 13, 2013

Father Brown mysteries on BBC

G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries, about a mild-mannered priest who solves crimes because he...

March 04, 2013

Writing contest for “Testimonies”

David Aikman, former journalist with Time Magazine and a friend and colleague of mine, has...

February 2013

February 18, 2013

My book on literature gets re-released

My book Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature has been re-issued in...

February 14, 2013

Chaucer & St. Valentine’s Day

You must read Rev. Joseph Abrahamson's post on the origins and history of St. Valentine's...

February 13, 2013

At the still point of the turning world

From Ash Wednesday by T. S. Eliot If the lost word is lost, if the...

February 12, 2013

What to read for Lent?

One of the ways I observe Lent (which starts tomorrow) is to read. I know,...

February 05, 2013

Finding and seeing Richard III

We blogged about how archeologists have discovered what they thought was the skeleton of King...

January 2013

January 22, 2013

Obama’s Second Inaugural Address

A president's inauguration address can indicate his vision for his next term, rally the country,...

January 18, 2013

Contemporary poet embraces Christianity

One of the most important publication in the contemporary literary world is Poetry Magazine. Its...

January 17, 2013

Jesus and other punsters

The BBC has a wonderful article by Sally Davies on puns, basically a review of...

January 16, 2013

Stranger in a Strange Church

Philip Jenkins cites the prescience of science fiction writer Robert Heinlein, whose novel Stranger in...

January 15, 2013

Journalism as a picture of exceptions

Mollie Hemingway, in the context of a post on how the media completely ignored a...

January 14, 2013

The nature of Hell

Something interesting I found exploring the Patheos neighborhoods: A discussion from Ryan Adams (whom I...

January 07, 2013

Hollywood’s explicitly Christian movie

We saw Les Miserables, which has to be the most explicitly Christian film that I...

December 2012

December 26, 2012

The eucatastrophe of Man’s history

It's still Christmas and will be for a total of 12 days. Jim Denney reminds...

December 19, 2012

Melanchton on Fables

Philipp Melanchthon was the great Renaissance scholar of the humanities who became Luther's right hand...

December 17, 2012

How was the Hobbit?

On another, appropriately escapist note, who has seen the Hobbit last weekend? We plan to...

December 14, 2012

More on the gutting of literature from the curriculum

We blogged earlier about how the latest educational reform program being pushed in the public...