The Life of Pi is a parable for the church today as it offers an apocalyptic vision–a tale of both destruction and revelation. … More End of the Frontier: Church, Apocalypse, and _The Life of Pi_
Many Christians live with a distorted understanding of death and heaven, and it is mostly because we get our cues from near-death experiences and other Platonic stories of the after-life. Here I explore some Reformed, Biblical teaching on “the new heaven and the new earth.” … More Eschatology 101: The Problem with Saying “We Go to Heaven When We Die”
The novel Catcher in the Rye was written by American author J. D. Salinger in 1951 and has been standard high school fare since, with a million books still sold each year and a place on the top 100 books of the century. But it has been one of the most censored books in America and I think it is time to put it on the shelf. … More Holden Caufield vs Holling Hoodhood: Teens as Alienated or Mentored into Adulthood?
Like the film The Red Violin (1998), the plot of People of the Book (2008) follows hundreds of years in the life of an object–but rather than a violin, the focus is the famous Sarajevo Haggadah (a rare illustrated Jewish devotion book). This history, too, is a series of dramatic episodes (from 1480 to 2002) that keep returning to a modern present that is full of intrigue. So this is a historical fiction page-turner by Brooks, a Pulitzer Prize winning author who can’t stop writing about religion. Remarkably, the story of a religious book turns out to read like a spy novel. … More Summer Reading: _People of the Book_ by Geraldine Brooks
Sensus Divinitatis 