Literature Archives

It is a thousand and one stories woven together in a tapestry, a Persian rug, of beauty.

At the heart of Station Eleven is a conflict between affirmation of Life and negation of Life. Affirmation wins.

Cyrano reminds us that most of us could use a little panache.

Rebuilding civilization requires hospitality to strangers, whether they show up cold and dirty on your doorstep, or warm and tiny in your womb.

An encouraging and hopeful story about the realities of facing and embracing the respective pains and promises of parenthood.

By compromising the connection between player and hero-protagonist, Shadow of Mordor sets up the player to identify as the villain, with no prior warning.

Healing doesn’t require a degree. But it does require a willingness to share someone’s suffering.

Till We Have Faces expresses the way in which Christian storytelling at its best has the potential to work upon people.

In Beautiful World, Where Are You, Rooney’s characters stay in a state of perpetual moral paralysis so as to avoid falling to their knees.

In The Aviator, Vodolazkin redirects our attention away from history as a sequence of ideological movements and towards the individual actions of human beings, each imbued with eternity.

Station Eleven focuses on the clarity that the pandemic’s disaster affords, and the way people re-make their sense of “home” after the damage.

Here’s what everyone was reading at Christ and Pop Culture in 2021.

Like Paul in Dune, we can fall into the trap of moral expediency—the temptation to care more about winning than about holiness and humble service. 

Silliman argues that each of these stories prefigures the current crisis within evangelicalism.

Thank God for the small comforts and consolations that pierce us to the heart with joy—the little things.

If the will of God is certain, do our daily actions matter? Erin and Hannah explore the role of destiny and free will in this episode of Persuasion.