Literature Archives

Why do I feel a jot of sadness when I drive past the cornfield that now occupies the space where my childhood home once stood?

The Christ and Pop Culture team highlights some of their personal favorite pop culture artifacts of the past 10 years in the Faves of the Decade series.

The Christ and Pop Culture team highlights some of their personal favorite pop culture artifacts of the past 10 years in the Faves of the Decade series.

Everts encourages Believers to go back to meditating on God’s Word which subsequently fills us up for authentic, instead of forced, conversations with non-Christians.

Unlike abuse, love does not excuse or minimize wrongdoing.

Gem and Alan Fadling ask foundational questions of ourselves and the world around us and then remind us that the best answer is found in Jesus.

The film’s intentional depiction of an all too real history invites reflection on the nature of the conscience and urgency of becoming a misfit.

Memeing the classics can be a way to plant seeds of interest, sparks that make seemingly dull, intimidating, or difficult pieces of literature come alive with possibility.

Simply upholding these tragic hero figures as warnings ultimately cheapens our understanding of both human depravity, and, more consequently, the extent of grace.

When the grandfather reads the story to his grandson, he invites us all to sit at his knee and listen. He invites us to be children again. 

We tinker and work slavishly as Dr. Frankenstein did, assembling our online creations with the parts we gather from various sources.

Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, and John Milton’s Satan invite us to view them as the heroes of stories that were never intended to be about them.

It’s perpetually difficult for those who love their creativity to understand and to reconcile it with their dark sides.

When we understand that love is multi-faceted and that it uncovers hurts, we move closer to understanding how love redeems.

And, as inevitably as Hopper strives against the darkness of the Upside Down, he also struggles to choose the higher goods before him.

No one who journeys through a magic portal or gateway or liminal space in such a story believes the world or worlds on the other side will be smaller.