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Book Review: The Great Divorce

July 21, 2023 by Gregory Rummo Leave a Comment

ESN has a long history of book reviews of significant works that help us think Christianly about the world. We so appreciate this review from Gregory Rummo of a C.S. Lewis classic, that makes a great summer read! SUMMARY The Great Divorce – A Dream,[1] is a fantasy “with an intended moral.” It is an allegory about Heaven and Hell. Whether inspired by or written in response to William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,[2] The Great Divorce dispels the notion that a person can get to Heaven while still clinging … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Great Divorce

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion Tagged With: C. S. Lewis, fantasy, fiction, heaven and hell, The Great Divorce

Healing…Fiction…Connectedness [Balm in Gilead / Summer Read…Quote…Reflect]

June 28, 2019 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

All that Gilead puts to us is the plain reminder goodness is not enough. Goodness, self-defined and self-contained, is something which will be poisonous if we're not careful. Without the wound, the openness, the crack that connects us to reality, to one another, and to God, healing doesn't happen. The “good“ can so easily come to believe that healing is natural and simple. But revelation tells us that healing is indeed the restoration of a broken nature, but precisely because our nature is broken, this healing must be … [Read more...] about Healing…Fiction…Connectedness [Balm in Gilead / Summer Read…Quote…Reflect]

Filed Under: Devotional, Quotes Tagged With: Balm in Gilead, fiction, healing, intervarsity press, Marilynne Robinson, Read...Quote...Reflect, rest, Rowan Williams, Shawn E. Okpebholo

Author Interview: David Russell Mosley

November 7, 2017 by David Russell Mosley Leave a Comment

We caught up with ESN blog author David Russell Mosley to learn about the two books he has released in the past year or so. We hope you enjoy hearing about David's recent publications. You can also browse his ESN posts here. 1. ESN: Would you give a brief description of your novel and your nonfiction book?   David: Absolutely! I'll start with the novel: My novel, On the Edges of Elfland, is about a young man named Alfred Perkins. He grew up in a small English village called Carlisle where his godfather, Mr. … [Read more...] about Author Interview: David Russell Mosley

Filed Under: Author, Interview, Life in the Academy Tagged With: creativity, fiction, writing

What are the Best Novels about the Academic Life?

September 14, 2009 by Micheal Hickerson 3 Comments

Over the weekend, I started reading Stephen Carter's The Emperor of Ocean Park. Carter, a law professor at Yale, made his name with nonfiction books like The Culture of Disbelief, and he also wrote a column for Christianity Today for several years. He's now successfully transitioned into a career as a bestselling novelist. The novel's narrator, Talcott Garland, is an African American law professor at a fictional Ivy League-type university (like they say - write what you know!), and a number of scenes are set within the … [Read more...] about What are the Best Novels about the Academic Life?

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy, Life in the Academy Tagged With: books, C. S. Lewis, fiction, michael chabon, novels, stephen carter, tom wolfe, wallace stegner

Dumbledore as a model admin?

August 6, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV 3 Comments

In A Great Man, Dumbledore,   Rob Jenkins, an associate professor of English and director of the Writers Institute at Georgia Perimeter College, proposes Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, might just be the greatest academic administrator of all time. ... Of course, not everybody can be a Dumbledore, but two-year college administrators can certainly benefit from his example. At the very least, they can learn to resist their more Umbridge-like urges, and thus save a herd of angry … [Read more...] about Dumbledore as a model admin?

Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Christ and the Academy, Life in the Academy, The University Tagged With: 2 year colleges, administration, Dumbledore, fiction, Harry Potter, Umbridge

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