Articles & Essays

Wells built a secular utopia in his imagination and spent his career watching it fail. The failure is the argument. What do we do with a prophet who predicted everything except the thing that mattered most?

The Word was present before the first sentence was written. What that means for how we read everything that came after — believer and resister alike.

The grotesque is not decoration. It is the only way she knew to make the reader feel the full weight of grace arriving uninvited.

How secular moral frameworks quietly borrow from the tradition they claim to have outgrown, and what happens when the debt comes due.

God owes nothing to no one. What the cross costs when you understand what it means that he needed nothing from us.

The Roman empire had its own gospel. Christ took the word back and filled it with something the Caesars could not imagine.

Tolkien understood that the Gospel is the true myth — the one all other myths were reaching toward without knowing it. What that means for how we read fantasy.

Evil, the supernatural, and what happens when the sacred order is violated. Horror is the genre that does not flinch from the thing that other genres prefer to ignore.