Review: Waiting on the Word, with the Word (and Malcolm Guite)
Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. London: Canterbury Press, 2015, 978-184-825-8006, 158 pp, £10.99. In keeping with…
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Review: Roger Scruton’s ‘Soul of the World’
Roger Scruton. The Soul of the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, viii + 205 pp., $27.95 cloth. In this, the forty-first text of…
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Poetry: Tim Bartel
The following two poems were written as part of a project exploring the possibilities of employing iambic pentameter – that worn, old meter perfected…
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Millennial Christians and the Post-Evangelical Love for Sufjan Stevens
As early as 2005, the Los Angeles Times was announcing the arrival of a new generation of musicians whose preference for introversion over boisterous ego and overwrought sexuality…
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Reading in the Dark
“Why is it that you like to read such dark stories?” As a literature professor at a small evangelical Christian college, I often get…
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There Is Nothing In The Dark To Be Afraid Of
Horror Studies has in the past few decades become increasingly interested in philosophy. The objects of fear that horror produced were not merely a…
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The Saints we Make: David Foster Wallace on the Big Screen
Theologian Benjamin Myers argues that modern western culture, like our cultural forbearers, remains rooted in sainthood. Instead of wearing habits and living in monasteries,…
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Shining Light on Suffering: A Theology of Scars
It is often argued that we are what we read. According to a study conducted by a professor at Dartmouth, the books we read…
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Cinderella: A Problematic Tale of ‘Kindness’
In the recent Cinderella (2015), directed by Kenneth Branagh (Thor, Hamlet), Disney reminds viewers of the age-old story, where a beautiful young maiden ascends…
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