Literature Archives

God, the giver of all good gifts, didn’t just give us food—he also gave us other people to enjoy it with us and to help us learn to enjoy it again if need be.

When we recognize how God is both strange and good, familiar and unfamiliar, and how the Bible is strange and true, we need not fear the “unhighlighted” portions of our Bibles, but read them with confidence.

Here are some books we love and think you might, too.

Jamison’s book recommends the freedom that comes with simply admitting that we need help… like everybody else.

The Nancy Drew books of the 80s and 90s are aggressively anti-fat, likely contributing to young girls’ earliest encounters with weight loss, dieting, and negative self-image.

But in Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak does not simply recast the Prodigal Son as a children’s fable. The book is art.

Living unsatisfied is the reality we know deep down and no longer need to cover with a shiny veneer.

Wilkin concludes that the hope of the gospel is not that we would just make better choices, but that we would grow into better people. To do that, we need to have a better grasp of who God calls us to be.

Butterfield isn’t proposing hospitality without personal boundaries, but hospitality that is open to having those boundaries widened for the sake of the gospel.

Comic books have the ability to be informative portholes for everything ranging from pop culture, science, and history, to governmental, economic, and social structures.

White Awake brings us back again and again, gently but inexorably, to the truths that we’re so unwilling to face, steadily prying our hands from our eyes.

William Hope Hodgson’s dark works are not without glimmers of something like light.

What if trusting God with our disorders, or the disorders of the people we love, means not trying to figure out the reason for them?

Forgiving God is about disability, except that it’s not. Not really.

In Ready Player One, humanity longs for the inner self to be unshackled from captivity to a meaningless and confining real world.

Fifty years after its initial publication, The Last Unicorn still retains its power.