Literature Archives

Stand by Me takes viewers along on a quest that encapsulates coming of age; deep, transforming friendship; and the possibilities of a “summertime kind of life.”

Revisiting good fiction—while by no means a replacement for Scripture—can become a vital part of the Christian life.

Mike Cosper’s Recapturing the Wonder: Transcendent Faith in a Disenchanted World is meant to be a guide out of this chaotic disenchantment.

The total eclipse can remind us that God, like nature, is also powerful, awful, and sublime.

In The Tech-Wise Family, Andy Crouch provides a fresh articulation of how the nature of technology can be conflict with the purpose and intention of home, family, and community.

Simply put, From Cairo to Christ is an uplifting, illuminating, and convicting read.

In Chasing Contentment, Erik Reymond identifies the lie that satisfaction and contentment come through consumption.

Neil Gaiman’s new book reminds us that stories are made to be loved, cherished, told, and retold.

In Movies Are Prayers, Josh Larsen exemplifies how critical engagement with a film can be an act of neighbor-love.

This poetic fusion of the cosmic and the local brings Lovecraft to the very doorstep of one of Christianity’s most foundational beliefs.

David Powlison dispels the myth that there is a “key to sanctification” and then lays the biblical groundwork for spiritual growth.

The Man Who Was Thursday equips us to endure our “dissolving age” by reminding us that there is a larger plan set in motion ages ago by the author of our existence.

In her book When Changing Nothing Changes Everything, Laurie Polich Short gives us insight into living life fully, whatever our circumstances.

In contemporary U.S. society—as in Twain’s post-Civil War South, as in Le Guin’s 1960s culture war America—our shared humanity is dangerously easy to ignore.