If you're looking for a Christian author who writes about film in a deep and meaningful way, I highly recommend checking out Roy M. Anker. Anker, formerly professor of film and literature at Calvin College, analyzes everything from crime films to historical dramas, noting spiritual ideas in their plots. Beautiful Light: Religious Meaning in Film, …
While studying at Taylor University, I got to present a few papers at their C.S. Lewis Center. The Center also hosts a great conference every two years for Inklings scholars. They just recently published a book of essays and fiction presented at the 2018 conference, including a great paper by John Stanifer on C.S. Lewis …
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One particular joy that comes with being a Christian and an artist is that you can believe your work has eternal impact. You can suggest ideas through your work that won't just make people happy for a few hours, they may change people's worldviews and point them toward God. There's a variety of research out there …
As I mentioned in my first post about my book review work, I review fiction as well as nonfiction. Not every Christian Fiction novel I get is particularly worth reading, but occasionally I get one that turns out to be pure gold. Blaze by Hope Bolinger takes a Bible story (in this case, the story …
While Christianity's answers to the eternal questions never change, our times do and it's often hard to say how we should view our current culture's problems and what solutions to provide. In this book recently published by Zondervan Academic, leading Christian thinkers consider how we should answer our culture's current dilemmas, including how the church …
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Recently, I've been reading a lot about Douglas Adams, the writer behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Quite a lot has been written Adams' wit, his originality... and how notoriously slow he was to finish anything. You would think that using a computer would be the perfect remedy to this problem, wouldn't you? Strangely …
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