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Singing Middle-Earth Goodbye
It’s nice to have one last song for the series, and extremely nice that the accompanying video brings in clips from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Looking forward to see how the saga comes to an end … Continue reading
Short Story Time with Dave Eggers
This past fall break I had the opportunity to see Dave Eggers in conversation with Tobias Wolff. It became the highlight of my first-ever trip to San Francisco (don’t get me wrong- walking the Golden Gate Bridge was great, but … Continue reading
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Why I Trust Peter Jackson
Lots of The Hobbit this week, and today brings the release of what might be the final trailer for the movie. It’s great … full of promises and hints and hopes (and a way to deal with the dilemma I … Continue reading
Weaving the Darker Web: Extending The Hobbit
Last night was spent happily perusing the new and extended scenes in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Peter Jackson added 25 minutes wisely to a movie well-told but somewhat slight. Some nice touches of humor have been added. Beorn … Continue reading
A Hobbit Walks into a Coffee Shop
The extended edition of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug drops tomorrow. The director’s cut has about 25 minutes added to the feature. I’m hopeful. While DOS flowed better than An Unexpected Journey, it also felt off in its own … Continue reading
On Lewis and the Nature of Reality
We just started a unit on creative non-fiction in my Faith & Literature class. I thought reading some of N. D. Wilson’s short essays would be a nice place to start. We recently watched this short video from Wilson about … Continue reading
Flying Air New Zealand to Middle Earth . . . Safely
Air New Zealand has done it again . . . made a nice safety video for flights to the land of Frodo, Bilbo, and Smaug. Weird to think I’ve been there (and just this year!). I hope to get back … Continue reading
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On Thinking Christianly
From an interview with Francis Spufford, author of Unapologetic: That music you hear in the distance? It’s St Augustine, St Teresa, Teilhard de Chardin, Pascal, Kierkegaard and Simone Weil all singing together, and what they are singing is that, as … Continue reading
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A Banner for Five Armies
I haven’t said much about the imminent release of final installment of The Hobbit (which isn’t to say that I have nothing to say, mind you). I’ve got a theory and I’m excited, but I’d rather put those thoughts down … Continue reading
Goodbye to Goodbye? Michael Harris on Absence
This past weekend I came across Michael Harris’s The End of Absence. It’s an interesting read, often summing up and building off of the thoughts of other books I’ve read about technology and culture over the last couple of years. … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 