Giving Thanks through Literature: Wendell Berry
One of the best things about a good piece of literature is its ability to construct a whole world, a world where you can…
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Giving Thanks Through Poetry
God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean they should. So then, my brethren, Live. – Gerard Manley Hopkins…
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Exploring Tragedy through Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Among the most powerful aspects of human art is its ability to reveal our emotional appropriation of crucial theological issues. For instance, the literary…
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Faith, Hope and Poetry: A Review
Transposition is very much what poetry and all literary art is about. To hear snatches from the huge unknowable symphony of experience, to catch…
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Going to “Church” with Les Murray
The first time Les Murray’s poem, “Church,” was published, in 2005, it was accompanied by an interview with the poet. Valentina Polukhina asked: “You…
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I recently asked 24 young artists[1] who were Christians to consider two questions: What does your craft require of you? What does the church…
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Harry Potter and the Eucharist of Empathy
In the second half of J.K. Rowling’s 2008 Harvard commencement speech, ‘The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination‘, Rowling defines imagination…
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Are labels useful? or, why I’m not sure about “Christian” Literature
Every now and then, someone will challenge why I would consider thinking through literature theologically, or whether thinking about theological texts and scripture with…
Read MoreGospel Echoes in Fantastic Fiction: Part Two (of Two)
Travis Buchanan just completed his M.Litt. at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews and is beginning…
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