February 16, 2010: Raven’s Ladder

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Jeffrey Overstreet has been volunteering his reviews and commentary on arts, faith, and culture for more than 15 years, working other jobs to keep this blog alive. As life gets busier, this becomes more challenging. Your support enables Looking Closer to continue. A donation says, "I appreciate what I read here. Thanks, Jeffrey." And it puts your name in the Credits.

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"Jeffrey is ... one of my favorite film critics. He writes with great lucidity and compassion about all sorts of movies, from all sorts of angles, but what I value most about his work is the theological-moral perspective he takes on things. He’s not a dogmatic scold, sifting through popular art looking for work that fits a rigid world view; he’s more interested in Looking Closer ... to discover what, if anything, the work is saying."

- Matt Zoller Seitz, editor of RogerEbert.com

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“Overstreet’s writing is precise and beautiful, and the story is masterfully told.”

- Publisher’s Weekly on Overstreet’s novel Auralia’s Colors

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About Jeffrey Overstreet

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About Looking Closer: An Introduction

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Comment Policy

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Overstreet on Tour: Speaking Calendar

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Some Favorite Quotes

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Some Favorite Sites

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"Mystery & Message," by Michael Demkowicz

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The Auralia Thread, Book 1:

Auralia's Colors

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The Auralia Thread, Book 2:

Cyndere's Midnight

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The Auralia Thread, Book 3:

Raven's Ladder

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The Auralia Thread, Book 4:

The Ale Boy's Feast

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Through a Screen Darkly

Jeffrey Overstreet's Through a Screen Darkly is a memoir of "dangerous moviegoing," which has become a popular university textbook on film, faith, and cultural engagement, and which earned praise from readers like Eugene Peterson, Gregory Wolfe, Scott Derrickson, Darren Aronofsky, and Dick Staub. Publisher's Weekly awarded it a "Starred Review."

What Readers Say About Jeffrey Overstreet

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“… [T]he spirit of the Inklings is alive and well and at least one living writer could have held his own at their table!”

- Dick Staub, author of The Culturally Savvy Christian

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“Jeffrey Overstreet is a trespasser. He’s constantly moving outside of the borders of what church and culture deem to be ironclad, eternal categories (sacred vs. profane, high culture vs. popular culture) — and he has a knack for bringing people along with him. His passport? The imagination. ... When you trespass with Jeffrey Overstreet, you don’t have to ask for forgiveness.”

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“In Auralia’s Colors, Overstreet masterfully extends the borders of imagination.”

- Gina Ochsner, author of The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight

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“While habituating the dark caves of movie theaters, he gives articulate witness to what I too often miss in those caves — the contours of God’s creation and the language of Christ’s salvation. … I find him a delightful and most percipient companion — a faithful Christian witness.”

- Eugene Peterson, author of The Message and Tell It Slant, on Through a Screen Darkly