“Reading” Articles

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

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.

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.”

Good stories point us to Christ—to who He is, what He loves, what He’s done, and what He’s yet to do.

Why do something so frivolous as telling stories when human lives may be at stake? Shouldn’t we be in the business of… well, surviving?

If we are willing, our bookshelves and our readings lists can have an incarnational bent.

Pilkey’s Dog Man books are able to communicate important truths without sacrificing the quality of the story—and he did that by being honest.

When the grandfather reads the story to his grandson, he invites us all to sit at his knee and listen. He invites us to be children again. 

These are a few of our favorite books.

Here are 11 great writer that will give your mind a reprieve from the hot takes of the day.

I discovered, as I imagine J. K. Rowling did at some point, that to love teenagers is to write them as they are—not as we wish they would be.

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.

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.

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

In the face of the threat to the very existence of the periodical, it does not seem out of place to offer support of the medium in overwrought spiritual terms.