Literature Archives

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.

Mr. Curtain in The Mysterious Benedict Society series differs from his counterpart in the novel but nicely satirizes the quintessential twenty-first-century tech baron.

Can The Mysterious Benedict Society, a book that skewers screen-based media culture, be fully realized on just such a screen?

Erin and Hannah invite Rebecca McLaughlin to help us learn how to show up in conversations despite our differences.

Erin and Hannah invite Rachel Pieh Jones to help us learn how to show up in real relationship despite our differences.

The most basic hopefulness present in every autobiographical disaster tale is its very existence. The name of the author on the front cover, together with their picture on the back flap, proclaims to the reader, “I survived.”

Stories that pretend horrifying, disturbing, and immoral things simply don’t exist tend to ring hollow. 

At its heart, Wynd is about our own search for renewal and who we become through the journey.

Whereas the world of addictive pleasure teaches us to feel, the world of beauty teaches us to sacrifice: to go beyond attention to the self and give attention toward another.

In both the Word and the world—in spirit and in body—trees sustain us with a grace we don’t deserve.

These contributions are birthed from joy and lament, celebration and sadness, commemoration of the past and considerations of what can be in the future.

Being the Bad Guys gives us the courage to admit our weaknesses so we can boast all the more of our Savior’s love.

When secular society framed sex as a need or right, purity culture said the same thing—at least to men—and taught a generation of women that they existed to fulfill this need.

By opening himself and giving to others, Ebenezer Scrooge is living a more robust life himself.