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Essays on Literature, The Bible

Godly Love Alters Time and Space

If you are feeling confined in your own home, or if you are weighed down by the indefinite length of time this will last, meditate on love. Love will bless your experience of space and will bless your experience of time. Continue reading Godly Love Alters Time and Space

Davis Wetherell25 Mar 202024 Mar 2020
Essays on Literature

The Novel, Human Experience, and God’s Good News

Like any good book, this book seeks to discover and reveal truth about humanity. But this quest is such a priority for this novel that even its characters pursue it. Continue reading The Novel, Human Experience, and God’s Good News

Davis Wetherell29 Jan 202027 Nov 2020
Essays on Literature

Why Read Walden?

This book is a particularly important classic book for Christian readers to go through. When we think of Walden, if we know anything about it, we have the general sense that Thoreau attempted to live a simple life. Continue reading Why Read Walden?

Davis Wetherell16 Aug 201920 Mar 2020
Essays on Literature

“Perhaps the Most Significant Literary Enterprise of Our Times”

What does Knausgaard do that is so significant? I shall try to answer this here. Continue reading “Perhaps the Most Significant Literary Enterprise of Our Times”

Davis Wetherell9 Aug 201922 Mar 2020
Essays on Literature

Why Read Virginia Woolf?

Woolf wrote great works, plain and simple. Among many other things, she wrote two novels that you should know and one famous essay/speech. Continue reading Why Read Virginia Woolf?

Davis Wetherell2 Aug 20196 Jan 2020
Autumn
Essays on Literature

One Fall With Two Autumns

Is there such a thing as non-narcissistic writing? The literary enterprise is an experiment in marketable solipsism. Even for the most humble of writers: what’s more self-centered than believing others’ heads need to be filled with your words? Continue reading One Fall With Two Autumns

Davis Wetherell26 Jul 20195 Dec 2019
Essays on Literature

At the Still Point of Our Turning World

Writing can be a whirlwind of an activity, and God’s Word provides us with refuge. I promise you this, when things are chaotic, inside your soul or outside in the world, you will never regret choosing to stand by and subject yourself to the still point, the sure and steady anchor, Jesus Christ. Continue reading At the Still Point of Our Turning World

Davis Wetherell22 Jul 20193 Dec 2020
Essays on Literature

Fiction is Not Something We Do, But Something We Are

Let fiction be a means of coming to terms with the conflict you face on this earth—an attempt to understand your own longings for God and bring to light your rebellion against God’s Spirit dwelling in you. Continue reading Fiction is Not Something We Do, But Something We Are

Davis Wetherell11 Jun 201919 Jun 2019
Essays on Literature

Thomas Mann on The Mark of a True Writer

This answer may surprise you, but it may also greatly encourage you. I agree whole-heartedly with this quote, and here are some reasons why I think it is true: Continue reading Thomas Mann on The Mark of a True Writer

Davis Wetherell24 Apr 20195 Dec 2019
Essays on Literature

Flannery O’Connor, Conflict, and Un-Sentimental Fiction

Some people say that good literature is “real” or “realist.” These words are overused. The problem here was never so simply Realism vs. Romanticism, for there exist very real people live very romantic lives, but perhaps cleanliness vs. messiness. Continue reading Flannery O’Connor, Conflict, and Un-Sentimental Fiction

Davis Wetherell22 Apr 20196 Jan 2020

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