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  • The Call to Higher Mercy

    Doing Much Ado About Nothing as a faculty play and teaching it to my English classes has provoked a lot of great discussions lately. Recently, my junior/senior AP students were discussing the crisis point in the play w…

  • Ogden Nash

    I love Ogden Nash (American 20thC author of humorous verse). My 7th graders have a Nash poem in our textbook, so I usually drag them to the computer lab to read and enjoy more of his short verse about animals. ("The Tur…

  • The Shack

    [Spoilers ahead!!] I'm still scratching my head about the hullabaloo. To hear people talk, you'd think The Shack was either the Holy Spirit incarnate or Satan Himself reduced to print form and corrupting the minds of …

  • In Darkness, Light: Literature & the Christian Imagination

    "Works with obvious meanings cease to be art." Edgar Allan Poe The Light of the Gospel often shines from unusual places. Truth tumbles into our laps all around us, thanks to the work of Grace.“Dualistic thinking” s…

  • Convergence

    I like it when a story in one medium gets transferred to another. The following music video for FATA's song "Pioneers" is clearly based on the famous short story "The Lottery." The lyrics echo lines from the story too.…

  • I've not read as much Hawthorne as I should. His style wears on me after a while, because (like all 19th century writers) he seems to wander through the entire dictionary before getting to his point. But his themes (esp…

  • it struck me today as i was teaching (American Lit--Emily Dickinson) that authors (especially poets) spend a lot of time thinking and writing about death. In this unit alone, we've discussed Bryant's "Thanatopsis," …

  • Training the Tastes

    There's that adage in teaching (especially classical education) that if you feed students a steady diet of excellence in literature, they'll learn to love excellence .. and reject junk when they meet it. I think I saw t…

  • Rock On

    ... i just thought these guys were cute. _______________________________ If you don't go read this article about Flannery O'Connor, you are seriously missing something. If you've never read her stuff, there are a few…

  • The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me by Delmore Schwartz "the withness of the body" --Whitehead The heavy bear who goes with me, A manifold honey to smear his fac…

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