It has now been almost twenty years since the release of the first film in Peter Jackson’s movie version of The Lord of the Rings. Those...

One of the questions I face as a professor of systematic theology at the undergraduate level is whether theology is compatible with a...

When my students discovered last year that I had never completed The Chronicles of Narnia, there was some consternation. They all know I...

So we lay down the pen, So we forbear the building of the rime, And bid our hearts be steel for times and a time Till ends the strife,...

“I ain’t afraid of no ghost!” That was the refrain in the 1984 hit song “Ghostbusters,” which was part of the soundtrack to the comedy...

About a month ago, I decided to permanently delete my Facebook account and reduce my personal "social media presence" (what an odd...

Depression is not something many Christians are comfortable talking about, but it is something I believe the Church needs to talk and...

Many years ago, I watched a video of a debate between Phillip Johnson (1940–2019) and William Provine (1942–2015). Johnson was a...

In Tolkien’s Legendarium, Arda is the name of the world in which we still live and in which the major events concerning elves and men are...

. . . and I feel fine. Anyone reading this who, like me, was in high school or college in the 1980s will likely know that these are some...