This article contains major spoilers for the original Harry Potter series. The theme of resurrection is dominant in the last of the seven original Harry Potter books. One of the three great “hallows” is literally called the resurrection stone. Harry even undergoes a physical resurrection of sorts after sacrificing himself for those he loves. The Christian... Continue Reading →
Recently, I posted a blog with one of my favorite quotes about literature which states, “Literature [is] the laboratory of the human condition.”1 How often I’m reminded of just how true that is! Last night, I was reading some selected poems by three late American poets who each reflected various "experiments" into what it means... Continue Reading →
This article contains major spoilers for A Tale of Two Cities and The Sorrows of Young Werther. “Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong... Continue Reading →
Perhaps nothing should capture the imagination as powerfully as the wonder of Creation. Even the simplest things, when humbly observed, should kindle a sense of the extraordinary. In our highly scientific and technological age, we so easily lose sight of how marvelous, how strange, how captivating, our little blue dot really is. Anyone familiar with... Continue Reading →
One of the main reasons that I started this blog was to help me slow down and process the wide variety of books I was reading. I find that writing is an essential part of the learning process and have found many times that my views have changed as I write about a topic that... Continue Reading →
Last night I finished reading C.S. Lewis’s novel Til We Have Faces. I thought it was a gripping tale that made me think critically about man’s relation to God. (Spoiler’s Follow!) I found the ending powerful and very similar to a recent chapter I read in R. C. Sproul’s The Holiness of God. Queen Orual... Continue Reading →