Literature Archives

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.

Erin and Hannah explore various ways we respond to our own mistakes and failures.

What stories do we tell others about ourselves? What stories do we inherit? Erin and Hannah discuss in this episode of their fall series.

We cannot escape our connections to others and the way these connections shape who we are and who we will become.

How we react to suffering—our own and others’—reveals much about what we truly believe.

Ambition sways and fools us into believing that our motives for success are pure.

Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson dig into what we’ve gotten wrong about Frankenstein and how the author’s life shaped the work.

If you’ve ever felt like an imposter when it comes to be well-read, this conversation is for you.

In a variety of ways, The Mysterious Benedict Society series is more emotive and less disciplined than its print counterpart.

In The Mysterious Benedict Society,“going” isn’t intrinsically good or bad: it depends on how you are going…and whom you are going with.

The Book of Strange New Things invites us to reckon with the reality of our shifting, ever-uncertain faith.

What I discovered in My Last Name is a story that has continued to help me process not just the grief and disillusionment of these last several months, but diagnose some of our current cultural ills, as well. 

The Mysterious Benedict Society poses deep, perhaps insoluble, questions related to the subject of truthfulness.

The Mysterious Benedict Society insists that true unity proceeds through difference, not in spite or in opposition to difference.

The Mysterious Benedict Society episode “A Whisper, Not a Shout” shares with its source material an emphasis on the importance of small, seemingly insignificant acts.