The Reason for No God My first thought upon picking up Stephen Hawking’s 2018 book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions is that it is…
Poetry: Belly Gunner
Belly Gunner My father’s father flew beneath the mass And sweating steel of allied bomber wings Defending stranger friends both now and past Hunched…
Poetry: A Good Hike
A Good Hike We hike with him a rough and unmarked trail, A park for all ordained as common ground, Our father, boots laced,…
Indivisible (David G. Evans, 2018)
Living with War: A Job-like wondering met with silence Making their way to Panama in late 1989 to overthrow the drug-running regime of Manuel…
Poetry: Moon and Rain
Moon Bloated and precise, a fat circle swollen in its roundness, glowing as if gorged on stars. A hypocrite, acting as if inherently luminous,…
First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2018)
The Sickness unto Death First Reformed is a film about depression and despair. While the two may go hand in hand, they are not…
Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis (Abigail Santamaria, 2015)
A very determined person I’ve been trying to think which of C. S. Lewis’s books I read first, but can’t remember. Unlike many who…
It Was Good: Performing Arts to the Glory of God (Ned Bustard, 2018)
Performing to God’s Glory I do not mean to be peremptory or presumptuous, but there is a series of three books you really should…
Apologetics and the Christian Imagination (Holly Ordway, 2017)
Apologetics both reasonable and imaginative Imagination and reason turn out to be intimately related. If you doubt that consider this common experience: You are…
The Hidden Life of Trees (Peter Wohlleben, 2015)
Trees are not just things When the ancient trees spoke wisely and moved slowly, heroically in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the…