Category: Kingdom Perspectives

  • If You Step Out That Door

    One of my favorite moments in Avengers: Age of Ultron is when Wanda Maximoff (aka the Scarlet Witch, although you’d never know it just from watching the movie) is huddled in a traumatized, whimpering heap in the corner of a building while genocidal robots overrun her city — traumatized not because she’s a coward (she’s…

  • Good, Evil, & Winning the Fight

    As an author of fantasy adventure stories, I write a lot about what’s popularly termed “the battle of good and evil.” Even in secular popular culture, that phrase gets a lot of traction. We might officially deny there’s any such thing as objective good or evil, but get us telling stories and we all know…

  • Excelsior! (Yes, I Am a Marvel Nerd)

    When I was a kid my dad had this book of Marvel origins stories–basically a bunch of #1 comic books bound together before “graphic novel” was even a term. Featuring stories by Stan Lee and those strong jaws by Jack Kirby, it included the origins of Iron Man, Thor, the Incredible Hulk, Daredevil, the X-Men,…

  • Finding Love and Fighting Back

    Our culture is so full of confused and harmful ideas about love that a lot of women and girls are looking for love in the wrong places. But there is a RIGHT place–a starting place for all real, authentic, life-changing love. That’s what the book I put together two years ago, with contributions from multiple…

  • Review: Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?

    Origins matter. Few answers are more enlightening that those that tell us where something—or someone—came from. Origins give us insight into the shape of reality, answering not only the what but the why. Even if you are a literalist* Bible reader (which I assume most of my readers are), you’ve no doubt heard people—maybe even…

  • perseverance

    Yes, I know, this post is REALLY late. I am pulling a late night in the office because I have so much to do today: besides “normal” work, I’m preparing to run a week-long arts camp next week as part of the outreach of Soli Deo Gloria Ballet. I am scheduling, arranging travel for, and…

  • God my inheritance

    I am twenty-eight, and I am single. I don’t know whether I always will be, but I am sure single now. Several of my friends, both men and women, are in the same boat. And some of us will never marry. For the sake of discussion, let’s pretend that’s where I am–single and going to…

  • soaking, and why social media is bad for our brains

    Socrates said, famously, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Sheldon Vanauken, less famously, wrote, “Examination of one’s life goes hand in hand with contemplation: first the seeing it as it is and then the thinking about it.” Solomon saw, and thought, and wrote, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all…

  • Passages: Defy the Darkness

    This week’s “passage” is a movie, the first short from Lamplighter Publishing. In this “new dark age,” a few will defy the darkness. This is a must-see for everyone who uses words to shine light in our culture! “With every word, with every page, with every story, we defy the darkness.”

  • Religion BookLine on Creating Culture

    Religion BookLine, a division of Publishers Weekly, published this interview with Andy Crouch, author of Creating Culture, today. Crouch says, “As I read the work of academic sociologists like Peter Berger I became really convinced that the only way that cultures change is when people make more culture—which called into question a lot of the…