T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: East Coker
East Coker is the second poem in T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece, Four Quartets. East Coker is the actual village in Somersetshire, England from which Eliot’s ancestor...
Category: Literature and Poetry
T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: Burnt Norton
I’m going to start this year’s edition of Resurrecting Orthodoxy a little differently. Instead of a book analysis, or something about YECism, or a Biblical Stud...
The Song of Solomon: A Reading
I admit that this is a rather different kind of post. In my Wisdom Literature class, we are currently going over The Song of Solomon, a book that, let’s f...
Two Easter Poems…
I thought I’d share two poems I wrote quite awhile ago. The first one is 25 years old–I wrote it on the Easter my sister and I were stranded in Colb...
The Genre, Historical Context, and Purpose of Genesis 1-11
Genesis: O Where to Begin? The book of Genesis is about beginnings: the beginning of creation, of humanity, and of civilization itself. Now, many of us in the m...
Easter Poems Throughout the Years
I thought I’d share a few Easter poems I’ve written throughout the years. ***The first poem was in Colby, Kansas, in 1993. I was helping my sister m...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 56): Now for something a bit different…Poetry, Art, Music, and Perspective
When I was in college, I fell in love with poetry and literature, and some of the most influential literature I came across of that of the 19th century Romantic...
A Little Bit of Old Testament Overview (so you can begin to understand the big picture)
I think it is safe to say that, outside of a few famous Sunday School versions of a few Old Testament stories, a handful of Psalms, and a number of select Prove...
All About MYTH: A Quick Response to a Facebook Discussion on Myth, the Gospels, and Jesus
I have not been posting too much this month because I have been busy with other things. Nevertheless, in light of a recent extensive Facebook discussion (and si...
That’s the Ways of the Worldviews (A Book that Will Be Blog Posts This Year!)
Back in the Fall of 2007, I started teaching Biblical Worldview at a small Evangelical Christian high school in Alabama. The headmaster essentially gave me free...