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  • Freedom and Transfiguration: As Earth Without Water (Book Recommendation)

    May 15, 2022

    Ultimately, Carl’s novel is a journey of hope. Despite characters’ woundedness, art-making still frees and transfigures: draws out the parched soul, leads it to water. In the end, Carl suggests, it is the water from which the soul drinks that matters; for some, art-making is simply the path that leads there.

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  • New Public Domain Works for 2022

    January 7, 2022

    It’s January again, which means thousands of books, films and other copyrighted items entered the public domain and are now free to be appreciated, reprinted or artistically remixed.

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  • Wild Belief: Poets and Prophets in the Wilderness (Book Recommendation)

    September 21, 2021

    Wild Belief serves as a literary pilgrimage through the lives of poets and prophets who have allowed the wilderness to transform their lives and their work — who have found the wilderness to be “a locus for renewal,” both spiritually and literarily.

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  • Happy Public Domain Day, 2021!

    January 1, 2021

    This year’s list items entering the public domain in the United States includes several notable works from 1925, the year the British Broadcasting Company called “the greatest year for books ever.”

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  • The Flowers of St. Francis (Book and Film Recommendation)

    December 7, 2020

    In the midst of the great crisis of truth that followed the World Wars, Rossellini’s films suggest that there is no more true character than someone playing himself.

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  • Scripture’s Knowing: A Companion to Biblical Epistemology (Book Recommendation)

    June 29, 2020

    That rituals are not expressions of our belief systems; rather they themselves are a way to think—a way to know, is one of Johnson’s core insights. Practicing rituals, Johnson thinks, is “embodied knowing” at its finest.

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  • By an Unexpected Way

    February 5, 2020

    There are a lot of people who would like to do something beautiful for God, but they have no idea where to start ... they are hungry to draw close to God and they want to do something with him, but they don't know how. I'm hoping people will read these stories and realize they don't need to know how!

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  • Telling the Truth (Book Recommendation)

    December 17, 2019

    "The comedy of the gospel is the surprise grace of God that wrests humanity from sin and death and gives it unexpected and outlandish hope and purpose."

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  • Tolkien’s Other Stories (Book Recommendation)

    September 6, 2019

    If you have enjoyed The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, or maybe even the Silmarillion, it might be time to explore some of these or other of Tolkien’s lesser-known stories.

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  • The Education of Henry Adams (Book Recommendation)

    July 30, 2019

    The education he had received bore little relation to the education he needed. Speaking as an American of 1900, he had as yet no education at all. He knew not even where or how to begin.

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