Tolkien on Fairy-Stories
This, from the epilogue of J.R.R. Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy Stories,” was inscrutable to me when I first read it in junior high.
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imagination
Three Modes of Christian Formation: Experience, Doctrine, and Liturgy
A year ago I attended a conference at Georgetown University in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Vatican II council. The conference, entitled
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When David Mitchell Was Mugged by a Simile
With his new book Slade House out, author David Mitchell has been getting some attention lately. Mitchell possesses the rare ability to discuss literature in a
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Saying It Anew: Preaching, Teaching, and Defamiliarization
(Above: a defamiliarized street sign in Montmartre) I have always been interested in how God’s Word is communicated in the Scriptures by the
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Emotional Apologetics
Today I was reading a year-old review of a two-year-old book that is still relevant and should have more impact than it has
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