When Alan Moore’s graphic novel Watch­men was first released in 1986, it altered the man­ner in which the nation viewed the comic book genre and rep­re­sented the mod­ern age of comics in Amer­ica. The pub­li­ca­tion caused read­ers, “to won­der what their beloved comic books would be like if pop­u­lated by char­ac­ters that... Read More »

The abil­ity to call on a Sav­ior any­where at any time is one of the many ben­e­fits of Chris­tian­ity. Cry­ing out to the Lord in life’s hard­est times can really help. In Han­nah Hurnard’s alle­gory Hinds’ Feet on High Places, Much-Afraid, a crip­ple hav­ing hor­ri­ble rel­a­tives at the time about to destroy her, finds a... Read More »

The Apos­tle Peter instructed in I Peter 2:17, “Honor every­one, love the broth­er­hood.” Sim­i­larly, Paul admon­ished, “Give every­one what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if rev­enue, then rev­enue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor” (Romans 13:7). The Amer­i­can Her­itage Dic­tio­nary defines honor... Read More »

The book Hind’s Feet on High Places is the story of a woman named Much-Afraid and her jour­ney to the High Places. Her name describes her very well; she con­stantly fears her rel­a­tives, whom she lives with in the Val­ley of Humil­i­a­tion. Much-Afraid wishes to be in the High Places and serve the shep­herd, but she can­not make the... Read More »

In order to appease pub­lish­ers and the gen­eral public—I can only assume—many con­tem­po­rary writ­ers have let go of cer­tain aspects of their prose. Per­haps edi­tors have deemed cer­tain pas­sages, or entire chap­ters, as super­flu­ous or con­vo­luted and muddy, and have struck those pieces to man­u­fac­ture a final,... Read More »

From the devi­ous exploits of a hun­gry father fox to the intri­cate deduc­tions of a fic­tional sleuth, the adven­tures of the char­ac­ters in my favorite sto­ries have always dri­ven me to expand the hori­zons of pos­si­bil­i­ties and think around the sit­u­a­tions that I find myself deal­ing with. Often, these char­ac­ters... Read More »