Christine Havens is a writer and a graduate of the Seminary of the Southwest. She is passionate about literature and theology. Her work has appeared on Mockingbird Ministries’ blog, Mbird, and in Soul by Southwest, the seminary’s literary journal.
M.T. Anderson: “I wanted to write a historical novel with the love of a good story, incidental detail, and willful inaccuracy demanded by the European Middle Ages.”
Nicked
By M.T. Anderson
Pantheon, 240 pages, $28
Nicked is a great-hearted, mischievous novel. The story, the characters, the theological exploration nicked my heart straightaway.
M.T. Anderson deftly weaves...
The Diocese of Easton, which a decade ago was contemplating a merger with one of its neighboring dioceses, now understands itself as a resurrected small diocese.
Los Alamos is a company town — 70 to 80 percent of the population works for the lab, and rector Mary Ann Hill loves the nerdy aspect of her congregation (her license plate is Luke Skywalker’s call sign, Red 5).
Asteroid City crosses multiple boundaries, exploring the anxieties and the questions surrounding human existence, taking inspiration from a wide variety of sources.
In discussing their parish, Roberta and David Skelton offer a simple description of those attracted to St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Hillsboro, Texas: “Happy people.”
Cormac McCarthy’s prose is wonderfully sparse and poetic. His disdain for punctuation lends itself to the apocalyptic and eschatological themes inherent in his work.