BEN: Another thing that is obvious early on in your study is that ancient biographies tended to have ethical aims of forming character, promoting virtues and prohibiting vices, and unless I’m mistaken you see Mark’s Gospel as also an attempt at that sort of identity and character formation. Right? But what kind of identity formation and how does the theological content and the uniqueness of Jesus fit into such an aim? HELEN: Yes, I think identity and character are very... Read more
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For diehard Tolkien fans like me, it was a no brainer that I would buy and read the Silmarillion many years ago, as a labor of love of Christopher Tolkien sifting through the many unpublished stories and manuscripts of his father. We owe Christopher a considerable debt because his father was, to be blunt, a tinkerer. He would create multiple versions of the same story, and in the case of the stories in the handsome 3 volume set called The... Read more
In days of sadness, In days of loss, We share our problems, But at what cost? With social distance Alone, together We try resistance To viral weather. And yet by breathing Instead of living We spread contagion So unforgiving. It fells the old ones, It fells the young It fells the strong ones And it’s not done. A curse has fallen On all the land Without a cure It’s out of hand. What Fiend beguiles us What anger riles us... Read more
Long before he was a Chronicler of Narnia or wrote his Space Trilogy, C.S. Lewis was a poet, and though his original early pre-Christian poems have been published and reprinted various times before, there is now a new edition, beautifully done, with a fresh Introduction by Karen Swallow Prior. This comes courtesy of the ambitious folks at Lexham Press who are doing some really interesting things. This work was originally published in 1919 under the name Clive Hamilton (the last... Read more
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