Bonus Post: What We Can Learn from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Story, “Young Goodman Brown”
This year, after fifteen years of teaching Biblical Worldview and Biblical Studies, both at the high school and college level, I have taken a teaching job teach...
Category: Literature and Poetry
Ken Medema, Frank Schaeffer, and Some Thoughts I Had About, You Know, Just Some Things
A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across this video on YouTube in which Frank Schaeffer was talking with Ken Medema back in 2016 at the Wild Goose Festival, ess...
A Poem of My Own: The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden (Circles 5-7)
In my previous two posts, I introduced a long, T.S. Eliot-inspired poem I wrote back in the 90s entitled, The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden. Here is the li...
A Poem of My Own: The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden (Circles 3 and 4)
In my previous post, I introduced a long, T.S. Eliot-inspired poem I wrote back in the 90s entitled, The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden. Here is the link to...
A Poem of My Own: The Seven Circles of Eternity’s Garden (Circles 1 and 2)
Back in 1991, I graduated college with a major in English Literature, and I read and wrote quite a bit of poetry. In particular, after college I got immensely i...
“The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot–A Reading and Explanation
Last year, I did a blog series in which I did readings of various T.S. Eliot poems, in which I also provided brief explanations and analyses of those poems. For...
Something New: Joel’s Music Sharing Time (Music that has impacted my life: Bob Bennett’s “Matters of the Heart”)
This post is the start of something different I will occasionally do on my blog. Having grown up in the Evangelical world of the 70s-80s, I was deeply influence...
Jason Lisle Picks a Fight with William Lane Craig (Part 2 of my look at Lisle’s critique of WLC’s new book)
A few days ago, I started a series on the recent criticisms that YECist Jason Lisle has had about William Lane Craig’s new book, The Quest for the Historical Ad...
T.S. Eliot: “Rhapsody on a Windy Night”
Rhapsody on a Windy Night has always been one of my favorite poems by T.S. Eliot. In many ways, it is one of the easiest to read and understand. As the title su...
T.S. Eliot: “Portrait of a Lady” (Some thoughts…and a Reading)
T.S. Eliot’s poem Portrait of a Lady was first published in 1917, in Eliot’s book of poetry, Prufrock and Other Observations. The poem is about guilt and broken...