From Six to Sixty: Introduction to Children’s Literature Symposium
J.R.R. Tolkien famously wrote in his “On Fairy Stories” I will now turn to children, and so come to the last and most important…
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God’s Grandeur: The Arts and Imagination in Theology
God’s Grandeur is a collection of essays from the 2006 annual conference of the College Theology Society (CTS) and National Association of Baptist Professors…
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Is Your Church Subcontracting Cultural Discernment?
Why do you read what you read? Is it because a teacher tells you or because a friend hands you a stack of books…
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Variations on a Theme: A Book for All
When I moved from Texas to Scotland two years ago, the Bible I had read almost daily for 8 years and had used for…
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Introduction: Symposium on the King James Bible
As I looked around my cottage-by-the-sea this week, I counted no less than five different English translations of the Bible with a German translation…
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Greenbelt Arts Festival: An Aesthetic and Religious Spectrum
Describing Greenbelt and its vast spectrum of acts, talks, moments of reflection and worship, musical and artistic spaces, meeting places, performances and comedy is…
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Review: Lovely, Raspberry by Aaron Belz
A review of: Aaron Belz. Lovely, Raspberry. New York: Persea, 2010. (70 pages; ISBN: 978-0-89255-359-4) His first collection, The Bird Hoverer, was described by…
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Reflections on “Hospitable Texts: New Approaches to Religion & Literature”
In the heart of London, by Trafalgar Square and the National Galleries, sits the Notre Dame University London Center. From the 14-16 July 2011,…
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Hospitable Texts: New Approaches to Religion and Literature
I’m heading to London today with two of my colleagues at ITIA (Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts) to present papers at The…
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