The King's Speech
The King's Speech is book-ended by two speeches. The first is a disaster, a deeply humiliating experience for Prince Albert, Duke of York…
Margaret Atwood - Life Without Certainty
Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…
Christianity and Critical Race Theory
This paper takes a careful look at critical race theory, and argues that only the Bible offers real hope for the future of race relations.
Gravity - film review
A review of the Oscar winning film 'Gravity' considers the themes of isolation, death, sacrifice and rebirth.
How does Christianity Relate to Literature?
The act of reading is an act of decoding. Until our everyday habits are disrupted, we don’t realize how complex a process it is. How…
The Invention of Lying
What would the world be like if no one had ever lied? Ricky Gervais's new film, The Invention of Lying, explores this question with the…
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…
Knowing
In 1959, the children of a new elementary school bury a time capsule containing their ideas of what they think the world will be like in…
Philip Pullman’s 'His Dark Materials'
To my mind, one of the main interests of Philip Pullman’s controversial trilogy is not specifically related to the books. It lies in…