Matthew Dickerson, Author at The Washington Institute

Matthew Dickerson is the author of several books, book chapters, and essays on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, most recently Aslan’s Breath: Seeing the Holy Spirit in Narnia. He has also published works of medieval historical fiction and written extensively about river ecology, native fish, fly fishing, and more recently in his book Birds in the Sky, Fish in the Sea about attentiveness to creation as an act of worshiping the Creator.

Articles by Matthew Dickerson

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“The Hobbit” and Compassion (in an Increasingly Compassionless World)

Matthew Dickerson | 9 min read

“A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo’s heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit In the opening chapter of his 1986 book Beyond Identity—one of those titles I consider a “must read”...