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February 2014

February 17, 2014

Homer, Virgil, and the Theology of the Underworld

Among the host of ways Virgil modifies and develops Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the changes wrought to the...

December 2013

December 02, 2013

C.S. Lewis: on faces and how to get them

This morning, Fred Sanders and I participated in a chapel honoring C.S. Lewis' life and...

December 02, 2013

The Praise of Perelandra

Excerpt from a chapel on the stories of C.S. Lewis, at Biola on Dec. 2,...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

First Lines of Theology Books

Joan Didion once said that the first line of a book is the decisive part....

November 18, 2013

The Dazzling Dusk

There are a few lines from a poem by Coventry Patmore that stick in my...

November 12, 2013

Mysteries to Themselves

The fallen angels in Paradise Lost are of course shockingly wrongheaded in their estimation of God:...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

Time

We are all past, present, and future. While our lives may be bound in the...

March 2013

March 01, 2013

Razumikhin Haddock

The character Razumikhin in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is one of the most personable figures...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

Hebrews: The Mind-blowing Finale

The book of Hebrews is the grand finale of the first semester in the Torrey...

February 18, 2013

Only the Lonely

I happened to be re-reading Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment the same weekend that we hosted...

October 2012

October 23, 2012

Progress for the Sake of…

As I was driving around LA the other day listening to NPR, two stories run...

October 03, 2012

Some Poetry with Your Haircut, Sir?

I like vintage barber shops. Ever since I was a boy, they have been part...

September 2012

September 12, 2012

Bayard: How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read

Pierre Bayard's 2007 book How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read is a real...

August 2012

August 07, 2012

O Tell Us, Poet, What You Do

A favorite Rilke poem: O tell us, poet, what you do. --I praise. Yes, but...

August 01, 2012

Unhelpful Advice from Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson is one of the acknowledged masters of English prose, a fixed star of...

June 2012

June 10, 2012

A Noble Risk:
The Making of a Wheatstone Conference Theme

Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of...

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