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Stealing past those watchful dragons…

 

The answer was “no.”  C. S. Lewis could not write “directly theological pieces” for Christianity Today.  His days of writing straightforward apologetics were over, as he explained in response to a request from editor Carl F.

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How Sendak may be more realistic than Sunday school or catechism class…

Where the Wild Things Are is a dark book for a dark universe, according to Dr. Russell Moore.  In a recent article in Touchstone magazine, “Death of a Wild Thing,” Dr. Moore offers some provocative reflections on how this

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Church and culture — the imagination as a means of grace…

“The Christian church has been guilty of a great abdication.”

Somehow, we’ve forgotten that art, beauty, and the imagination are important to the life of the Church—to the life of the Church as the Church and to the life of …

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Whence a moral imagination?

“The person who reads bad books instead of good may be subtly corrupted; the person who reads nothing at all maybe forever adrift in life unless he lives in a community still powerfully influenced by … ‘moral habits’ and by oral …

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