Category Archives: Views
Are Christians Too Modern?
A thought I had today … Evangelical Christians are too “Modern.” They fail to see the intellectual baggage modernity brings with it and they falsely assume that pre and post-modern thought somehow rejects the concept of truth or absolutes. Post-modern … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Evangelicalism, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Religion and Spirituality
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Fairy tales and Fantasies are as old as the world
N.D. Wilson in the introduction to Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: Fairy tales and fantasies are as old as the world. This is an easy thing to forget. It is easy to see only the stories we tell today – fresh and shiny … Continue reading
Modernism, Liberalism & Tolkien
Modern liberalism likes to think that all our problems are epistemological: we are afflicted by never knowing with sufficient clarity what we ought to do. Our fictions tend to reflect that assumption. Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Gopnik, Alan Jacobs, fantasy, J. R. R. Tolkien, liberalism, modernism, New Yorker, Young Adult Fantasy
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Nicole Krauss on writing
“For me writing is a long process of wandering and getting lost. I have no sense at all, setting out, what I am going to write. I think that will always, more or less, be the nature of my process.” Continue reading