Literature Archives

In contemporary U.S. society—as in Twain’s post-Civil War South, as in Le Guin’s 1960s culture war America—our shared humanity is dangerously easy to ignore.

It is possible to be a fan of someone’s work without insisting that everyone else feel the same way.

In 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You, Tony Reinke presents the pitfalls of smartphone use and suggests a practical way forward.

Death’s party-crashing ways are detailed in a new book by Russ Ramsey, titled Struck: One Christian’s Reflections on Encountering Death.

It’s time to find a way past the Purity Movement that helps us fuse what we know about sex with what we know about God and how he wants us to live.

Dorothy Parker was far removed from my Christian comfort zone but her work helped me to find a voice of my own.

Reset is an excellent example of taking the fruits of common grace psychology and integrating them into a practical theology for Christians.

Paradoxology provides an apologetic for uncertainty and a defense of discomfort.

Submission to a worthy and trustworthy person emboldens, even in the fictional relationships of Fate/Zero.

In The Circle, no one is ever known, because knowledge about others is mistaken for actually knowing others.

This is what 1984 can offer us: a fuller picture and vocabulary to articulate the brokenness beneath our apathy, fear, and information overload.

Richard Adams is gone now, but as a storyteller he lives on. He’s handy that way.

Alana Massey’s “All the Lives I Want” lifts up our shared humanity.

In Gospel Fluency, Jeff Vanderstelt wants to help every believer speak the gospel in the stuff of everyday life.

Comfort Detox is a valuable stepping stone for people who are disquieted with their own excess but are not sure what to do next.

Eric Metaxas has written an inspiring book on American exceptionalism. But does he blur the details of history?