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Jane Austen Cozy Christmas Chat with Haley Stewart and David Goodhew

With love, wit, and a laugh, Jane Austen brought human drama to the drawing room. We love her for it. It also gave her away as a Christian.

Poetry for the Church with Abram Van Engen

Poetry delights, deepens, and is for the Church.

Ernst JĂĽnger and the Spirit of an Age

The early 20th century German author Ernst JĂĽnger was a brilliant diagnostician of the times in which he lived. JĂĽnger's works may afford us a lens on our cultural moment.

Merry Christmas, from William Faulkner

William Faulkner is not an author who readily comes to mind as a bearer of good tidings for the Christmas season. Scholars like Michael...

Good Books and Good Talk

By Victor Lee Austin "Put the oil where the squeak is” can guide adult Christian education programs. What’s squeaking in 2023? In my view it...

Cormac McCarthy: A Survey and Appreciation

By John Mason Lock Cormac McCarthy died June 13 at the age of 89. He was to my way of thinking the greatest living novelist...

Kenneth Roberts, American

By John Bauerschmidt Literary fashion comes and goes, even in the more resilient popular sphere, and can deal unevenly with novelists. Kenneth Roberts, who died...

The Theology of Agatha Christie

Hers is a world in which we can recognize ourselves: broken yet searching for, and trusting in, redemption and le bon dieu. This is why she continues to touch the public soul.

Two Anglican(ish) Novels: Can We Live Without Christianity?

By Victor Lee Austin Rose Macauley’s 1956 novel, The Towers of Trebizond, opens with an Oxford woman coming home from High Mass on her camel,...

Books: Forgotten Friends

By Ephraim Radner When I worked in Burundi in the early 1980s, my house stood across the road from the local school. One day, a...

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