Forgotten Classics: A Christmas Carol, Fezziwig, and Love for the Least of These
Now is the perfect time to approach Dickens’ classic, with its perennial themes of repentance and generosity.
Now is the perfect time to approach Dickens’ classic, with its perennial themes of repentance and generosity.
This novel, inspired by the murders of Jack the Ripper, ultimately forces readers to confront the evil that exists within their own breasts.
Stories—whether of real or fictional events—hold a unique place in human life, delighting, causing wonder, captivating the imagination, purging the emotions, and even encouraging moral growth.
The future need not be bleak, as Benson’s novel reminds us.
Despite her own failings, Sophia’s grandmother offers us a model of presence and love.
The Magnificent Ambersons engages with issues of technological and social change in modernity. But it is also a very human story, focusing on a single family, detailing the lives of its members as change rocks their way of life
An honest sense of one’s own failings and shortcomings is part of what makes levity possible. One of the best books I know for inculcating humility through humor is Jerome K. Jerome’s novel, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).
The Spear serves as a lectio divina of sorts, that is, as an opportunity to imagine oneself in the action of the Holy Scriptures.
Tolkien’s most intimidating book may be his richest.
Sin is a perennial reality that we cannot eradicate through political will. Instead, we are called to heal the world. One of the best dramatic considerations of this is Shakespeare’s hilarious, beautiful, and criminally overlooked play, Measure for Measure.
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