“Reading While Black” by Esau McCaulley: Book Analysis Series (Part 2)
Here in my second post on Esau McCaulley’s book, Reading While Black, I am going to provide an overview chapters 2 and 3. Chapter 2 is entitled, “Freedom is No ...
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New Book Analysis Series: “Reading While Black:African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope” by Esau McCaulley (Part 1)
Last fall, Esau McCaulley, an assistant professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, came out with his book, Reading While Black: An African American Biblical...
T.S. Eliot: “Rhapsody on a Windy Night”
Rhapsody on a Windy Night has always been one of my favorite poems by T.S. Eliot. In many ways, it is one of the easiest to read and understand. As the title su...
T.S. Eliot: “Portrait of a Lady” (Some thoughts…and a Reading)
T.S. Eliot’s poem Portrait of a Lady was first published in 1917, in Eliot’s book of poetry, Prufrock and Other Observations. The poem is about guilt and broken...
T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Some thoughts…and a reading)
It really says something about how difficult T.S. Eliot’s poetry can be when the one, if not only, poem almost every high school English Literature curriculum h...
T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: Little Gidding
Little Gidding is the fourth and final poem in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Written in 1942, it essentially signaled the end of Eliot’s public career as a poet. ...
T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: The Dry Salvages
Dry Salvages is the third poem in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. It is the only poem of the Four Quartets that includes an introductory note to tell us that the Dr...
Book Review: “(Mis)Interpreting Genesis” by Ben Stanhope…yes, it is REALLY GOOD
Over the past five years or so, I’ve written quite a lot about the creation/evolution debate, particularly on the misinterpretation of Genesis 1-11 by young ear...
T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: East Coker
East Coker is the second poem in T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece, Four Quartets. East Coker is the actual village in Somersetshire, England from which Eliot’s ancestor...
T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: Burnt Norton
I’m going to start this year’s edition of Resurrecting Orthodoxy a little differently. Instead of a book analysis, or something about YECism, or a Biblical Stud...