E. Nesbit as Fantasy God-Mother
For many readers – H.G. Wells and Laurence Houseman, G.K. Chesterton and Noel Coward – for these and thousands more, the most magical stories…
Ambivalent Anticipation: Advent
This is the first week of a new year; the new liturgical year, that is. But in the face of the end of civic calendar…
Review: The Liturgical Year
Joan Chittister, Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life, Thomas Nelson: Nashville, 2009. The Liturgical Year is part of the The Ancient Practices Series from…
E.Nesbit and her Child Readers
Seamus Heaney’s “The Railway Children” from his 1984 collection Station Island, offers an almost ekphrastic response to E. Nesbit’s classic British children’s story, The…
From Six to Sixty: Introduction to Children’s Literature Symposium
J.R.R. Tolkien famously wrote in his “On Fairy Stories” I will now turn to children, and so come to the last and most important…
God’s Grandeur: The Arts and Imagination in Theology
God’s Grandeur is a collection of essays from the 2006 annual conference of the College Theology Society (CTS) and National Association of Baptist Professors…
Is Your Church Subcontracting Cultural Discernment?
Why do you read what you read? Is it because a teacher tells you or because a friend hands you a stack of books…