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Singular Song
I started the week with my favorite song from Steven Curtis Chapman’s new album, Worship and Believe. Thought I’d close out the week in a similar fashion. Here’s “One True God,” a song that retells the biblical story and points … Continue reading
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Taking a Dip in Myth
Lewis continued his discussion of The Lord of the Rings as myth in “The Dethronement of Power,” his review of The Two Towers and The Return of the King that appeared in the October 1955 issue of Time and Tide. … Continue reading
Nostalgia and Narsil
In his review of The Fellowship of the Ring, Lewis tackles the charges of “fiction as escapism or nostalgia” head-on. We saw hints of it in yesterday’s excerpt. We get an even better sense of it in the selection below. … Continue reading
Middle Earth as Myth (not allegory)
One of the things you hear most when reading Tolkien (or reading about Tolkien) is whether or not The Lord of the Rings is an allegory. Tolkien, of course, flatly denied the charge, but that hasn’t kept decades of readers … Continue reading
“When the Gods Returned to Earth”
One of the things you find on almost every copy of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring is a quote from C. S. Lewis. “Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron; here … Continue reading
Who You Say We Are
This past weekend saw the release of Steven Curtis Chapman’s latest, a worship album called Worship and Believe. The two terms in the title hang together awkwardly. We might think that the reverse is the appropriate order: believe and worship. … Continue reading
Closing the Door on Downton Abbey
This Sunday sees the final episode of PBS’s Downton Abbey. While the show never quite lived up to its first season promise, it was an enjoyable weekly visit to another time and another place. The episode airing Sunday night is … Continue reading
Formation and What You Love
These past few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to work through the concept of formation with some of my peers. It’s been an interesting journey made even more interesting by the thoughts of James K. A. Smith. Smith’s new book, … Continue reading
Bouncing Back with the Agents of SHIELD
It feels like forever-and-a-day ago since the mid-season finale of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. The first half of the season was a great example of accelerated story-telling, with a number of major twists and turns taken in what would take … Continue reading
Dwelling and Indwelling
One of the things I like most about N. T. Wright’s image of the biblical story like a five-act play is how it holds the story together while also emphasizing the underlying connective tissue. One such tissue is found in … Continue reading
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