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Insider Secrets for Reading Great Literature
A Syllabus for This Blog BACK WHEN I WAS TEACHING in the college classroom, I began each semester by giving my students a syllabus for the course. The syllabus outlined the course as it would play out over fifteen weeks…
Insider Secrets for Reading Great Literature
A Syllabus for This Blog BACK WHEN I WAS TEACHING in the college classroom, I…
Reading for Pleasure: Easier Doesn’t Mean Better
DO YOU “READ FOR PLEASURE”? For many people, this means they enjoy an “easy read.”…
Digging for Treasure in the Bible
I’ve been looking forward to returning, finally, to my blog series on “The Great Flood…
A New Way to Think about Reading
AS THE POWERFUL OF THIS WORLD go about trying to achieve their Great Reset—to erase…
The Story God Is Telling at the Present Time
AFTER A YEAR OR TWO of particularly alarming and distressing events in the world…
Books Can (Help) Save Our Dying Culture
I’VE BEEN WANTING to get back to writing on this blog for some time now,…
Peacocks, Vanity, and the Prick of Conscience
“VAIN AS A PEACOCK,” we used to say, back when vanity was a vice rare…
“People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them.”
FLANNERY O’CONNOR
The Moral Imagination
Special Series: The Great Flood in Ancient Literature
Joe Schmoe Reads Genesis: Part 1
LAST TIME, WE LEFT JOE SCHMOE making breakfast after a blizzard that stranded him in a rustic cabin without a cell phone, and nothing to pass the time but twiddle…
Joe Schmoe, Meet the Bible
IN A RECENT POST, I pointed out that the Bible is unlike other books in that, while each individual portion has a human author, the book as a whole is…
Digging for Treasure in the Bible
I’ve been looking forward to returning, finally, to my blog series on “The Great Flood in Literature.” Although I said when I started that I wanted to demonstrate how the…