Literature Archives

The Quarry suggests that the awareness of our own sinfulness violently awakens us to our need for a new life.

I feel a searing of my own conscience as I read The Ickabog, especially in the context of events unfolding across America with the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent protests.

We must also educate ourselves, immersing ourselves in the stories and experiences of the Black communities and individuals in America.

If we are willing, our bookshelves and our readings lists can have an incarnational bent.

Pop culture is a powerful force for change, and these picks from Christ and Pop Culture staff members are a great place to start.

Religious readers may find important insights in the dark corners explored by Hippocampus Press and other niche publishers of weird fiction.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn teaches readers how to argue for hope’s existence.

If you’re wrestling with your vocation right now, the pithy and poignant thoughts Garber shares in The Seamless Life might be just the guide you need.

The Twilight Zone points us toward reading not just as a recreational pastime but as a possible site for the cultivation of virtue.

Pilkey’s Dog Man books are able to communicate important truths without sacrificing the quality of the story—and he did that by being honest.

Newbell has the practical life experience and theological foundation to unpack what it means to run a race with endurance, and why the Bible so frequently utilizes this metaphor. 

A reading challenge can be just the pause we need to stop and consider which books in our collections contain truth and goodness—which are told in a beautiful way.

Chappelle’s best comedy holds, as it were, a fun-house mirror up to our nature.

Christian fasting and feasting is the ultimate anti-consumerist response.

HBO’s adaptation of The Outsider reminds us that we must learn to cope with fear and grief in order to be guides for those in the world who have no hope.

It’s in those moments that the internet feels like a good place to be—a place to reveal how a single story written by an English chap in the 1950s has touched and shaped thousands of lives for the better.