Some faithful Christians refuse to read fiction. The reason cited is the same: If there is time to read, they’d rather read something true. Better to plow up a real field than a pretend one. Such prejudice against fiction isn’t new. General Robert E. Lee forbade his son Rob from reading novels because they would discourage industriousness and cause him to desire unreal things.[1] Simil......

IntroductionCreative people are needed because God demands a richer vocabulary than words can give. New eloquence is needed to move the borders of intelligibility. Yet, God didn’t make everyone to be a creative person. Some are hands and some are feet. Others are the intuition.[1] The intuition sees how things tend, which means they see how things complete themselves. Because of the constrained va...

IntroductionJust because we ought not take ourselves too seriously doesn’t mean we ought not give serious reflection to the unconversable subject of death. Upon the occasion of his mother’s grave illness, Martin Luther wrote a letter encouraging her to confront death directly, “Let us therefore now rejoice with all assurance and gladness, and should any thought of sin or death frighten us, let us ...

One doesn’t form memories. One is inhabited by them. The reason the world is in such a moral mess is that it is in the grip of a demonic inhabitation, willfully possessed by the dark daydreams of solipsism. If your memory canvas is painted with an amoral, asymmetrical human world, void of aesthetics and substantive only in the meaning of power patterns, then it’s no wonder people occupy a gallimau...

The recent movement of Hitler-love is full of moral stunts and scoops, intellectual bargaining, and self-promotion. It is a world as spiritually dead as the world of the PWC, also rejecting metaphysics, only in a coarser form. As René Girard taught us, rivalry really does eliminate differences....