The next citizen of Winesburg, Ohio is a man named Doctor Parcival. Unlike the other characters we’ve encountered, Doctor Parcival is not a pitiable character like Wing Biddlebaum, or a tender and sweet character like Doctor Reefy, or a sad character like Elizabeth Willard. Doctor Parcival is not really likable at all. The Philosopher: An…
One of the saddest characters in Winesburg, Ohio is Elizabeth Willard, the mother of George Willard. We first met George in the story of “Hands”—he was the town newspaper reporter to whom Wing Biddlebaum took a liking. In actuality, George pops up in several of the stories in Winesburg, Ohio. In this fourth story, “Mother,”…
Perhaps my favorite story in Winesburg, Ohio is “Paper Pills,” the story about one Dr. Reefy and the beautiful young woman he married who, died shortly with a year after their marriage. No, there was nothing sinister. But we’ll get to that soon enough. First, let’s look at the story. Paper Pills: An OverviewThe story…
The first full story in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio is a story titled, “Hands.” It is one of my favorites. It is the story of an odd “fat little old man” in Winesburg named Wing Biddlebaum. He lived in a house just outside of town, next to a field that had been seeded for clover,…
A new year is upon us, so I wanted to start off this new year on my blog with a literary series about a book that I long have loved: Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson. Published in 1919, it is one of the often-overlooked gems of American Literature. Now, I had never even heard of…
Here we are at the end of 2024. As I’ve look back over the topics I covered this year on resurrecting orthodoxy, I noticed that a good number of my posts this year had to do with, shall we say, a very specific “war” going on within the largely Evangelical world: Left vs. Right, Woke…
Well, it’s the Christmas season, and as to be expected, many “social media scholars” have posted material that deals with the nativity stories in Matthew and Luke. One such scholar is someone I’ve written a couple of my own posts on over this past year—Dan McClellan. And so, today I thought I’d write yet another…
Now for the thrilling conclusion of my look at the YECist movie The Ark and the Darkness. Aside from the specific items I have mentioned in my first two posts, in this post I want to zero in on the whole “End Times” mentality that I have come to see is driving, not just the…
Here in Part 2 of my look at the YECist movie The Ark and the Darkness, I am going to provide an overview of the second half of the movie, as well as give my observations on it. Enjoy… The Impact of the Flood ItselfIn the next part of the movie, after discussing the specifics…
Over this Thanksgiving break, I decided to rent The Ark and the Darkness, a YECist movie collaboration of Liberty University and the Ark Encounter. It originally came out at the beginning of 2024, but I wasn’t about to pay $20 to buy it, so I waited until I could plunk down $5 to rent it…