FaithTheological Reflections

Rewriting Our Scripts

| 13 min read

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring The instant we step out of our homes and put our feet down onto the sidewalk, we...

Continue Reading

CulturePopular Culture

In Praise of a Good Morality Tale: the Simple and the Complex in the Fiction of Elizabeth Goudge

| 11 min read

Bibliotherapy.  Never heard of it?  Neither had I, at least by name, until browsing a lifestyle magazine a few months ago. Perhaps you are familiar with this term. For those who aren’t, PsychologyToday describes it as “facilitating psychological growth and healing through reading.” All kinds of books can be therapeutic, and counselors who use bibliotherapy...

Continue Reading