This essay attempts to do two things. Firstly, it seeks to offer a brief tour of some of the developments in western literature,…

Please note that the content of this talk partially overlaps that of Jerry Root’s other talk entitled 'C.S. Lewis’s Approach to…

A review of Batman Begins.

English literary history is a curious thing. And one especially curious thing about it is that it contains very little of importance which…

A review of the Manic Street Preachers' Lifeblood album.

Kingdom of Heaven offers a very twenty-first century take on twelfth century history. In a war-torn world troubled by religious conflict,…

Andy Crouch’s award-winning book examines what a Christian posture towards human culture should look like.

I write a weekly column for The Dallas Morning News as a contributor to their Texas Faith blog. This week we were asked, "What would Jesus…

M (Judi Dench) is nothing if not pragmatic. Before the opening credits of Skyfall have even rolled, she has allowed not one, but two of her…