Literature Archives

COVID-19 has become our society’s most recent real-life monster.

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Erin and Hannah host Luke T. Harrington to discuss the importance of humor and how our faith can actually be strengthened when we learn to take ourselves—and life—a little less seriously.

Page by page in Wait with Me, Jason Gaboury encourages us to see these pockets of loneliness as places we can ask God to wait with us, meet with us, and make us more whole.

Gina Dalfonzo joins Erin and Hannah to explore the value of nurturing friendships even in the most dire of circumstances.

Wendy Alsup joins this conversation to help us reconcile our current historical moment—which is full of loss and fear—with our tendency to sidestep pain and suffering.

If Twitter and Facebook and Reddit and TikTok and whatever else is out there have anything in common, it’s obsession. And that’s what Moby Dick is all about.

Reveling, then recognizing the same enthusiasm in us, Shea Serrano delights to share these experiences.

So-called cephalomania first took off in France, where it suddenly became fashionable to host octopus- and squid-themed parties, and for a few years, squid-shaped hats were considered to be the height of fashion among French women.

Why do something so frivolous as telling stories when human lives may be at stake? Shouldn’t we be in the business of… well, surviving?

Tomi Adeyemi’s success with Children of Blood and Bone is especially important for our cultural moment.

Jesus and John Wayne is history as confession, history as lament, a type of history that hopes in a God who never puts us to shame, even as hope in America does.

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.