Tag Archives: religion

Why Most of Us Will be Disappointed After the Election

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

Throwback Thursdays are where I find a blog post from the past–raiding either my own blog-hoard or someone else’s–and throw it back out into the digital world. This might be an idea or book that is now relevant again, or … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Canada, Canadian Politics, Donald Trump, Election 2015, Election 2016, environment, evangelicalism, Mordor, Occupy Wall Street, Politics, religion, Tea Party, Theology of Culture, UK Politics, US Politics, worldviews | 2 Comments

The Screwtape Letters Special Illustrated Edition by Artist Wayland Moore (Throwback Thursday)

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Brenton Dickieson

Posted in Reviews, Throwback Thursdays | Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, james thurber, literature, religion, Screwtape, The Screwtape Letters, Used Bookstores, Walter Hooper, Wayland Moore | 19 Comments

Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age as a Background to Study of C.S. Lewis

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

Charles Taylor has been called the leading philosopher of today. If narrowed to the questions of religion, the self, and human experience, the claim has some grounding. For students in theology, religious studies, modern intellectual history, or the philosophy of … Continue reading →

Posted in Original Research, Reviews, Thoughtful Essays | Tagged A Secular Age, C.S. Lewis, Charles Taylor, Dom Bede Griffiths, Elizabeth Anscombe, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mary Augusta Ward, Matthew Arnold, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Oxford, philosophy, religion, Robert Elsmere, theology, Theology of Culture | 18 Comments

2017 Mythopoeic Awards Finalists and A Review of “The Chapel of the Thorn” by Charles Williams

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Brenton Dickieson

The Mythopoeic Award shortlist is out (see here). I’m not often at the same table as the cool kids on the newest and hottest fantasy lit–I’m just now reading Patrick Rothfuss, and wondering what I have done with my life … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged A Grief Observed, Arthuriana, Beowulf, Bodleian Library, Chapel of the Thorn, Charles Williams, fantasy, Gladstone's Library, J.R.R. Tolkien, Margaret Atwood, Marion E. Wade Center, Mythopoeic Award, narrative poetry, Patrick Rothfuss, Poetry, religion, Science Fiction, Shakespeare | 17 Comments

Why Religion Matters: A Mini-Vlog Series

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

One of the trade-offs of my recent vacation and research trip to the U.K. was that I had to miss the first week of classes. In our “Inquiry Studies” class we were simply doing introductions, so I joined the class … Continue reading →

Posted in Original Research | Tagged Chester, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, religion, religious studies, Stonehenge, Teaching, theology, United Kingdom | 16 Comments

The Letchcraft Toast: Discovered from the World of Screwtape

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

As readers of A Pilgrim in Narnia will know, I enjoy knocking about archives. Not long ago, I made a chilling discovery: what appears to be an audio recording of an internal gathering of strategically placed demons. Needless to say, … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged archive, C.S. Lewis, church leadership, demonic epistolary fiction, demons, epistolary fiction, leadership, religion, Screwtape Proposes a Toast, seminary, spiritual theology, The Screwtape Letters, theology | 4 Comments

Why I am Not Anti-Muslim

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

This is the phrase I put on the board for my students last week. They were not overly fond of my logic. But I had built us up to the moment. I noted a number of terrorist attacks from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged 9/11, apologetics, culture war, Election 2016, Islam, Islamism, popular culture, prejudice, religion, social media, terrorism, Theology of Culture | 56 Comments

Why Most of Us Will be Disappointed After the Election

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

Note: Most of my readers are American or British, and may not be overly excited about Canada’s Federal Election happening today. What I’m talking about fits into any of these contexts, and I’ve tried to include some UK and US … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Canada, Canadian Politics, Election 2015, Election 2016, environment, evangelicalism, Mordor, Occupy Wall Street, Politics, religion, Tea Party, Theology of Culture, UK Politics, US Politics, worldviews | 28 Comments

“Down In The Depth Of Mine Iniquity” by Fulke Greville

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

Baron Fulke Greville was one of the 1550s boys–one of those men born during the tumultuous period in the transition of the child king Edward VI to the prosecutor, Bloody Mary, to the stabilizing Queen Elizabeth. Born in that decade … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged Bloody Mary, C.S. Lewis, Donne, Elizabethan era, Eminem, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Fulke Greville, Kanye West, Marlowe, Poetry, Queen Elizabeth, religion, Shakespeare, Sidney, Theology of Culture | 26 Comments

A Review of “The Chapel of the Thorn,” a lost Charles Williams play by Sørina Higgins

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

Libraries are sacred spaces. I have had the opportunity to make pilgrimage to some of these storied cathedrals. I sat in contemplation at the Edwin W. Brown Collection at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, not even sure what I would … Continue reading →