Literature Archives

Our team highlights their favorite books and games from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

To read Mixed Blessing is to explore the pains and triumphs of multiethnicity––to be seen, for readers who are multiethnic, and to understand, for those who are not.

Power is no thing to love, only to bear with, as Tolkien teaches us.

“Further up and further in” is an imaginary concept, informed by legend and myth, and also Scripture. These are invitations for all to partake in bigger experiences, conversations, joy, and peace.

Clinging to my perspective while reading endangers my practice of reading as a method of gaining insight.

Erin and Hannah invite Chris and Elizabeth McKinney for a conversation about loving your neighbors for their miniseries called Happy, Thankful, People.

Erin and Hannah invite Dustin Crowe for a conversation about thankfulness for their miniseries called Happy, Thankful, People.

Erin and Hannah invite Barnabas Piper for a conversation about happiness to kick off a new miniseries called Happy, Thankful, People.

Turning our expectations and environment upside down, the Beatitudes initiate the reversal of our moral and spiritual fortunes.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic functions as both a weird Gothic horror and a fairy tale.

To participate in politics in 2020 seems to be an exercise in fear, like the call from Dark in Ray Bardbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes.

The pandemic may have slowed things down, but we still feel the crush of expectations and demands, perhaps more so while working from home and sensing internal and external pressure to prove that we’re pulling our weight.

What I love about the creation and inclusion of the Enola character is how much she makes sense in the Holmes family and how much she adds to the ethos of the story. 

We are called not to stay as we were found or as we wish we had been found, but to grow in spiritual maturity and knowledge of the Gospel; to remain focused on the past is to refuse to grow spiritually.

In Sex and the City of God, Carolyn Weber shows us the merciful (yet painful) process of Christ re-ordering her loves and directing her paths.

Christ and Pop Culture members receive digital copy of Compassion (&) Conviction from AND Campaign thanks to InterVarsity Press.