Looking Along the Beam: Apologetics and the Christian Imagination
Author’s Note: This post is adapted from material in Apologetics and the Christian Imagination: An Integrated Approach to Defending the Faith, Emmaus Road Publishing,…
The Canary in the Coal Mine? Thoughts on Allegory
Teaching allegory is always a bit of an uphill battle. I used to think that allegory was difficult for students because they simply weren’t…
Visiting Scholar Series: Imagination and Reason
Imagination and reason: how do they relate to each other? Working in the field of cultural apologetics, and specifically in imaginative and literary apologetics,…
Reversals: Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “The Starlight Night”
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things…
Worship and Identity: The Role of Beauty in the Church
A church service may look like a gathering of very ordinary people – with all our sins and weaknesses – but that is just…
The Sign of the Cross: Participatory Aesthetics
Dr. Holly Ordway is Chair of the Department of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University, and is the author of Not God’s Type: A Rational…