By Luci Shaw A student in a lecture hall once asked me, “Don’t you get tired of noticing things?” By way of answering her I quoted one of my favorite sayings from Annie Dillard, embodied ... Continue Reading »
With the pen as his pulpit, George MacDonald used fiction to show the relevance of scriptural truth to the problems of his age. By Kirsten Jeffrey Johnson Many critics like to claim that George ... Continue Reading »
George MacDonald's legacy is his reminder that we are creative beings because we are made in the image of a Creator. By Trevor Hart Editor's note: C. S. Lewis wrote of George MacDonald, "I ... Continue Reading »
Reading may not change the world -- but it changes the reader, and that's a start. By Katherine Paterson The summer that I was 17 years old, I, who was born of missionary parents in China, was ... Continue Reading »
From ancient times, human beings have used both practical and poetic language. By Randall Smith When I get to the poetry section of English 102—where sunsets look like “etherized patients” and subway riders resemble ... Continue Reading »
C. S. Lewis employed his imaginative gifts to dispel his readers' illusions and educate their feelings. By Doris T. Myers In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, one of the Narnia series, Eustace, a factual-minded, ... Continue Reading »
Creative writing and the pursuit of sacramental vision In this essay, Randy Smith describes the creation of art as a search for sacramental vision—an apprehension of meaningful wholeness, of unity in the created order ... Continue Reading »
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