Literature Archives

These are a few of our favorite books.

Reinke wants to help readers not be manipulated and enthralled by the spectacles of our media age. Instead, he shows that we see the greatest spectacle of all in the Cross.

The central message of shōnen manga seems to be that whatever obstacles you face, try hard, stay true to your values, work together with your friends, and you will prevail in the end.

Fictional stories can help us see more clearly truths and falsehoods that seem complex in the real world.

As our only means of consuming entertainment, [binging] may turn us into fevered people impoverished for art that satisfies as only the True, the Beautiful, and the Good can.

And just as there is no one purpose for our most common and immediate medium of expression, the voice, there is likewise no one purpose for art. Art, after all, is merely voice through another medium.

It’s so easy to swim in the waters of enoughness because that’s where our friends and family and neighbors are.

Earley coined his rule of life “The Common Rule” because it was intended for the common American—those who, like Earley, find themselves buying into American habits that divert us from the practices of Christ and toward the practices of achievement.

Heroic lives are usually, in reality, as unglamorous as assistant pig-keeping.

Hacksaw Ridge, like Shusau Endō, asks us to consider the very terrifying particularity of God’s interactions with human beings.

We like to limit narcissism to people who think they are pretty or handsome but, in truth, it is much deeper than that.

7 Myths about Singleness casts a vision for how being single is not a second rate path in the kingdom of God.

Hermanas explores the lives of women from the Bible, weaving the truths from their narratives in with the experience of the modern Latina woman.

These friendship stories—in giving us fantastic scenarios—demonstrate how in God’s economy friendship is far from cheap.

In CAPC Jr., significant children in the lives of our writers pass on their own unique insights into some of their favorite cultural artifacts.

Dear Evan Hansen teaches us there is no substitute for true community.