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Who Tells Your Story

Last night, a friend drove up from Indy, and we drove into Chicago to see Hamilton. I hadn’t driven in downtown Chicago in a few

The Kingdom in Disguise: Learning to See

The Kingdom in Disguise: Learning to See This week we’ve listened for echoes of the Kingdom of God in unexpected places. We’ve learned to look

God’s Kingdom Keeps Shining

If The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of fantasy books for children containing Christian themes, the same is true of The Lord of the

Bent. Broken. Better Shape

Can we be “bent” into grace? Or, perhaps more rightly, can grace “bend” us into something else, a better version of ourselves? Charles Dickens’ novel,

The Little Prince

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – a French

A Tale of Two Cities

On mornings like this, it helps to look beyond the horizon. I know the forecast called for snow, but I just wasn’t mentally prepared for

The Last Battle

Today ends my reading of The Chronicles of Narnia. While I personally enjoyed the first book in the series more than the last, C.S. Lewis

Entering A Portal To Another World

The concept of going through some kind of portal and entering another world is a common theme in books and movies. Dorothy’s tornado whisks her

The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, something interesting happens when the children first hear about the great lion, Aslan. They’re not ready to

The Chronicles of Narnia

I’m still in The Chronicles of Narnia with Lucy, her sister, Susan, and her brothers, Peter and Edmund. In the first book of the series,