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January 2013

January 23, 2013

The Size of Our Books Was Determined By The Size of the Average Sheep in the Middle Ages

Books are as big as they are because medieval sheep were as big as they...

January 17, 2013

Every Character in Winnie the Pooh Represents a Common Mental Disorder

From Flavorwire's list of conspiracy theories about classic literary characters: In 2000, the Canadian Medical Association...

January 17, 2013

Ignorance of Botany Is Ignorance of Literature

Anna Williams on how ignorance of botany can interfere with the enjoyment of literature: I...

January 11, 2013

Sex as Natural Means to Commitment

Tim Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: The modern sexual revolution find the idea of abstinence till...

January 08, 2013

After You Die They’ll Eat Potato Salad

From Albert Mohler's new book Conviction to Lead, The: 25 Principles for Leadership that Matters:...

January 07, 2013

What Flannery O’Connor Got Right About Epiphanies

Author Jim Shepard's favorite passage from "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" highlights a...

January 02, 2013

The Wilderness of Childhood

Novelist Michael Chabon wonders whether denying children the freedom to roam is stifling their imaginations:...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

When Smart Theologians Endorse Dumb Hermeneutics

If you've been anywhere near the evangelical blogosphere lately you've probably heard that Rachel Held...

October 29, 2012

Gardening and Governing

Gardening marks, as clearly as any activity, the joining of nature and culture. The gardener...

October 16, 2012

How Puritans Became Capitalists

In his book, Heavenly Merchandize, Mark Valeri, professor of church history at Union Presbyterian Seminary, finds...

October 16, 2012

How Fairy Tales Make Children Better Humans

Bruno Bettelheim on fairy tales and children: There is a widespread refusal to let children...

October 08, 2012

Why Bible-Lovers Should be Bibliophiles

Rick Ritchie argues that Bible-lovers should be bibliophiles: “. . . my call is not merely...

October 03, 2012

25 Favorite Short Stories

In his Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Pierce defined a novel as “a short story padded.” This is...