Academic

Claiming the Courageous Middle: Daring to Live and Work Together for a More Hopeful Future – Shirley A. Mullen

People talk a lot about how polarized America is and how increasingly uncivil our public discourse has become, but people rarely suggest substantive solutions for how to deal with this. In Claiming the Courageous Middle, […]

Non-Fiction

Now and Not Yet: Pressing in When You’re Waiting, Wanting, and Restless for More – Ruth Chou Simons

Everyone has experiences of feeling like their life will never change. Transitional periods between life stages, jobs, and relationships seem to drag on forever. Suffering feels like it will never end. A more fulfilling, meaningful […]

Non-Fiction

Mimetic Theory and Middle-earth – Matthew J. Distefano

Mimetic Theoy and Middle-earth. Don’t let the title scare you, Matthew Distefano’s perspective on JRR Tolkien’s legendarium through the lens of mimetic theory isn’t some academic text about some obscure philosophy. Instead—read the subtitle—this is […]