The Archive
Christopher Benson
Maya Angelou says he “thinks like a sage, acts like a warrior and writes like a poetical prophet.” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. says he is “the pre-eminent African-American intellectual of our generation.” And Marian Wright Edelman says he is “one […]
Christopher BensonFilm Reviews/Hollywood
The Culture Wars Played Out in the American Cinema House
Tex
Vital spark of heav’nly flame! Quit, O quit this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling’ring, flying, O the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister […]
Jake MeadorUncategorized
What makes good writing?
Christopher BensonMusic
The Double Entendre of African-American Music: A Lesson for the Church
TexUncategorized
The Rebel and the Cause
Christopher Benson
Jesus taught that “people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil” (John 3:19). As an anthropological and ethical statement, this is unequivocally true. But do we need physical darkness? In a National Geographic article entitled […]
Christopher BensonFormation
Time Poverty and the Sabbath
Christopher Benson
A Meditation on Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! Shortly after the death of Nebraska pioneer John Bergson, his children––Alexandra, Lou, Oscar, and Emil––go on a “pleasure excursion” to buy a hammock from Crazy Ivar, who obtained the name from his hermetic […]
Jake Meador
On Land and Its Marks
Tex
St. George is an unlikely candidate for “saint most likely to promote tolerance and ecumenical understanding” these days. The legendary soldier is most often pictured astride a gallant warhorse, nobly piercing a large dragon with his lance or spear while […]
Christopher BensonLiterature
"Her eyes drank in the breadth of it": a phenomenology of receiving the land