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Of you're seeking an accessible yet deep book on finding beauty in unexpected places, even in hard times, I highly recommend checking this one out: https://eclalibraries.org/2020/03/26/searching-for-spring-how-god-makes-all-things-beautiful-in-time/
It's interesting how often Western churches describe Jesus as gentle, basically inoffensive. The idea he had other sides, including the ability to get angry and shock people, doesn't come up very often. Yet you could argue it's vital we talk about that side of Jesus, because until we do so we're missing the fully story …
We don't think of absurd stories as being particularly Christian. But have we missed something there?
Some of you may have read a paper I presented at the Center for the Study of C.S. Lewis & Friends in 2019 that compared The Call of Cthulhu and The Lord of the Rings. Around that same time, I reviewed a collection of H.P. Lovecraft's short stories for Aphotic Realm, a fiction magazine that …