Culture • Popular Culture The Seven Basic Plots and the One Basic Plot: Cosper, Booker, and The Stories We Tell Will Herron | 9 min read Being parents of young children, it was a rare occasion (even pre-pandemic!) when my wife and I were able to get out to dinner and a movie. Our last cinema... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Robin Wright’s “Land”: Two Essays Dr. Steven Garber | 7 min read “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.” These words have been running through my mind the last weeks, thinking through ideas about metanarrative... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture In Praise of a Good Morality Tale: the Simple and the Complex in the Fiction of Elizabeth Goudge Becca Hermes | 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... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Everything is Broken Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read A few weeks ago on an early morning drive I listened to Bob Dylan for two hours, the whole way there. Not what I always do, but that day I... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Dickens’ Bleak Vision: Vocation Gone Wrong Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 8 min read One of the challenges of a proper doctrine of vocation — God’s care for all types of work, their importance, their value, their biblical dignity — is that it so... Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture On Dragons and More Dr. Steven Garber | 6 min read “Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon’s lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot... Continue Reading
