The afterlife — and even the “before life!” — play a crucial role in Pixar’s latest release, “Soul.” But unlike the traditional Heaven & Hell paradigm of Judeo-Christian / Western t...
Subtitled “The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times,” the prolific author, speaker, and social critic Os Guinness pulls no punches about the bleakness of the times we live in. In his la...
The answer to that question, it appears, depends on what side of the aisle you fall — author or reader. So I was following an author for a spell, keeping an eye on the release of their first no...
I’ve never really wanted to read Jane Eyre. Until now. Jane Eyre is just one of several pieces of classic literature that Karen Swallow Prior, Professor of English at Liberty University, uses t...
I am biased towards Christian artists. Especially those working in the secular marketplace. I want them to succeed. Which is one reason I’ve been following Scott Derrickson’s career with inte...
I took up William Webb’s Slaves, Women, and Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis as part of a challenge.That challenge was issued by a pastor friend after I made some co...
That was the question writing coach and consultant Martha Alderson was asked, specifically about some negative reviews she had received on one of her writing books. Martha answered that question ...
Christians love to posture themselves as “Going against the flow” and being “Not of this world.” We are a people set apart, different than the surrounding culture, with a unique set of va...
I was interested in reading a certain novel… until the fake reviews started rolling in. Sure, maybe I’m overreacting. I mean, everybody’s doing it, right? Authors know how important “good...
I publicly expressed some concerns about the theology of a recently released book. I was contacted by the Contributor / Editor and we exchanged some private messages in which he challenged me to ...