Preparing us for National Poetry Month—and I know you’ve been making your plans for weeks now—my friend Mindy Withrow offers up the poem below by Billy Collins. As I read it, I wondered if we don’t too often treat the text of Scripture the same way.
Introduction to Poetry
I ask them to take a [...]

Author, literary blogger, and friend Mindy Withrow has posted an exclusive interview with Susan Wise Bauer in conjunction with the imminent release of her much-anticipated book The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome. My readers will remember Ms. Bauer from her Books & Culture review of John [...]

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Our daughter Hannah has resurrected her old “True Confessions” blog as a children’s literature review blog. Hannah has always had an interest in children’s books since…well, since she was a child! In the years since then she studied children’s literature in college and has read more kid’s books than are probably in most town libraries. [...]

While I fear that we’re drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we’re defined by what embraces us. - J. R. Moehringer
This summer I’ve spent some time reading stories. I still have been reading theology, of course, but I’ve made an effort to [...]

I always love the stories my friend Joel the philosophy prof tells about the growing apprehension of the world by his little daughter Claire. In this installment, Claire shows us that our preconceived notions of what a story is about can cause us more “mature” ones to miss the forest for the pine needle. Claire, [...]