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February 2017

February 24, 2017

How our politicized media would review the Narnia books

Our media is highly politicized across the spectrum, obsessed--pro- or con- or somewhere in between--with...

February 14, 2017

The two kinds of romantic love

One kind of romantic love leads to life--to marriage, fruitful sexuality, children, family, virtue. The...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

C. S. Lewis, atheist

C. S. Lewis, one of the foremost Christian apologists, had been for 15 years a convinced...

January 16, 2017

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

To observe Martin Luther King Day, read his classic "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." It...

January 13, 2017

Legal rights for robots as “electronic persons”

A committee of the European Parliament has passed a measure that would give legal rights...

December 2016

December 23, 2016

Tolkien’s newly-discovered Christmas poem

A Christmas poem written by J. R. R. Tolkien was recently discovered. Entitled "Noel," Tolkien...

December 22, 2016

The tragedies behind “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”

Let me just let Jim Priest, writing in the Daily Oklahoman, tell it: As Christmas...

December 20, 2016

The Christmas stories of Connie Willis & her favorite Christmas movies

Connie Willis is an award-winning science fiction author and a deft satirist of contemporary foibles....

December 15, 2016

Gift idea: Christianity Today’s 2017 book awards

Christianity Today has announced its 2017 book awards. The list of winners in all of...

December 01, 2016

Reproduction as resurrection

Peter Leithart gives a splendid reading of Shakespeare's Sonnet 3, in which he is trying...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

“What good is a road if it doesn’t lead to a church?”

Rod Dreher has interviewed Eugene Vodolazkin, the author of Laurus, which we posted about yesterday. Read...

November 28, 2016

An epic Christian novel

I've just finished Laurus, a novel by the Russian author Eugene Vodolazkin, an Orthodox Christian,...

October 2016

October 26, 2016

Tom Wolfe takes on Darwinism and its failure to explain language

Tom Wolfe is among our best contemporary writers. The founder of the New Journalism, which...

October 20, 2016

The Berenstain Bears go Christian

The Berenstain Bears have been children's favorites since the first title was published in 1962....

October 03, 2016

Religion replaces sex on the Banned Book list

Last week was Banned Books Week, the American Library Association's tribute to books they get...

September 2016

September 09, 2016

Americans are still reading books

The death of the book has been greatly exaggerated. A Pew study has found that...

September 06, 2016

When TV goes literary

NBC is developing a new series based on Charles Dickens' classic novel Oliver Twist. The...

September 05, 2016

My vocation trilogy

I have written three books on vocation. I just realized that this constitutes a trilogy....

September 01, 2016

“Family Vocation” giveaway

GoodReads is giving away five copies of Family Vocation: God's Calling in Marriage, Parenting, and...

August 2016

August 23, 2016

Chance for free books

Are you familiar with GoodReads, a popular site for following authors, seeing what your friends...

August 18, 2016

A comedy-thriller about the Reformation

You have GOT to read The Relic Master, a novel by Christopher Buckley (son of...

July 2016

July 22, 2016

A theology of writing/a theology of fiction

My daughter Mary Moerbe, over at her blog Meet, Write, & Salutary, is trying to...

July 07, 2016

Still waiting for Godot

Some former students are putting on Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett's absurdist comedy, and asked...

July 05, 2016

Confessions of an ex-liberal theologian

Thomas C. Oden is a prominent theologian who formerly was a major practitioner of liberal,...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

We aren’t as busy as we think we are

Chaucer describes a bustling lawyer (the Sergeant of Law) like this: Nowhere so bisy a man...

May 19, 2016

Day Jobs

Scot McKnight has a post from an Australian source on the Day Jobs of 20 Famous...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

“To you, O Lord, I will make music”

More aesthetics in the Bible, from passages that I had never noticed before: Psalm 101,...

March 2016

March 27, 2016

“Can there be any day but this?”

Easterby George Herbert RISE heart ; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise Without...

March 25, 2016

“Was ever grief like mine?”

Read George Herbert's "The Sacrifice," a poem from the perspective of Christ on the Cross,...

March 24, 2016

“Which my God feel as blood; but I, as wine”

Today is Maundy Thursday, arguably the climax of our Lord's earthly ministry, the day He...