Category: Reflection

The Value of Theological Fiction

Frank SpinellaBibliography

It’s woven into the human fabric: we are all story tellers and story-listeners. “Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood,” says British novelist A.S. Byatt.[1][…]

Frank Spinella

About Frank Spinella

Frank Spinella has been a practicing trial attorney for over thirty years. A partner in the Concord, NH firm of Hall, Morse, Anderson & Spinella, he is listed in Best Lawyers in America® in the field of commercial litigation. He has authored a number of law journal articles, primarily in the field of antitrust law. The Cloak and the Parchments and Heresy are his first two novels. Frank and his wife Linda, an Episcopal priest, live in Bow, New Hampshire.

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“Where is God now?”

Elizabeth KingBibliography

I finally picked up Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief and read it in less than 48 hours. The story follows a young German girl through Nazi Germany. At the end of the book, I was[…]

Elizabeth King

About Elizabeth King

I am currently living it up as a preschool teacher in China. I divide my reading time between theology textbooks, contemporary literature, and Newbery Medal winners. When I'm all grown up, I want to write like Madeleine L'Engle.

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Naming: An Act of Justice

Elizabeth KingBibliography

In his last post, Michael wrote, One of the principle ways literature and, more broadly, language, helps us see is that it enables us to name. With language we can clothe shapeless and silent abstractions[…]

Elizabeth King

About Elizabeth King

I am currently living it up as a preschool teacher in China. I divide my reading time between theology textbooks, contemporary literature, and Newbery Medal winners. When I'm all grown up, I want to write like Madeleine L'Engle.

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Naming: A Way of Seeing

Michael ConnerBibliography

In her latest post Lauren wrote about literature’s ability to shape our perceptions of the world. The written word provides access points to God, to Truth; it conditions our vision. The literature we produce and[…]

Michael Conner

About Michael Conner

I am pursuing my vocation as a pastor-poet by studying biblical literature at Indiana Wesleyan University and reading lots of Eugene Peterson, Mary Oliver, and Walter Brueggemann.

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Books as Prophets–thoughts on Gail Godwin’s “The Good Husband”

Lauren D. SawyerBibliography

The difference between your Miss or Mr. Literal-mind and the Prophet/Poet is simply this: To Miss Literal-mind, a seed is a seed. She shakes it out of its Burpee packet, covers it with dirt, waters[…]

About Lauren D. Sawyer

I am a Ph.D. student at Drew Theological School studying Christian Social Ethics. Learn more about me at laurendsawyer.com.

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Forgiveness and Repentance (Remembering Brennan Manning)

Lauren D. SawyerBibliography

It is always beneficial to acknowledge that books can be deceptive. The most lyrical prose on the furious longing of God creates the illusion that we have already arrived at beatitude. Then after reading a[…]

About Lauren D. Sawyer

I am a Ph.D. student at Drew Theological School studying Christian Social Ethics. Learn more about me at laurendsawyer.com.

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The Theology of Comma-And

Lauren D. SawyerBibliography

In one of my writing classes in college, I was taught to avoid “comma-and” sentences, those sentences that contain two independent clauses, separated by the most-boring-of-all conjunctions: and. There’s no flavor in comma-and sentences. There’s[…]

About Lauren D. Sawyer

I am a Ph.D. student at Drew Theological School studying Christian Social Ethics. Learn more about me at laurendsawyer.com.

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