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The Orphan Story Tumbles Home: A Review of Lois Lowry’s “The Willoughbys”
Everyone loves a good orphan story—or that’s what we must assume, given the popularity of them. I’ve only ever pretended to read Anne of Green Gables (I saw all 4 movies) and Heidi (I read the Classics...
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The Haunting Death: Lewis, Buechner, and Me on the Loss of a Parent
Lewis in Letters I’ve read, now, about 200 pages of Lewis’ letters. This is just a small slice of the 2000 pages of his letters I have in my bookshelves. But it is enough to begin to see patterns and...
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On Trusting Your Audience: My Thoughts on “The Giver” on Film
Lois Lowry’s The Giver was so transformational for me that it sits so far back in memory I can no longer remember when I first encountered it. It was, I think, the first dystopia I understood. Its...
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The Haunting Death: Lewis, Buechner, and Me on the Loss of my Parents
On Friday, February 12th, I watched my mother finally succumb to cancer. She was only 61. In her death she taught me a great deal about how to live. You can read a brief story of her life here. I am...
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The Problem of Good: Thinking about God and Evil with “The Giver”
One of the great questions that fixes the attention of thinkers in our generation about the existence of God is the Problem of Evil. The argument is so simple it is almost sublime. I summarize the...
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