The rain had been falling against the windows of The Kilns for most of the evening.Inside, the fire had burned down to a red glow. Books covered the table. Some were open. Others had scraps of paper marking particular pages. C.S. Lewis sat at one end with his pipe resting beside him. Michael Ward had several pages of notes. Alister McGrath had brought a … [Read more...] about What Happened to Susan in Narnia? Why C.S. Lewis Left Her Behind
Is Aslan Jesus? What C.S. Lewis Really Meant in Narnia
Edmund Pevensie had avoided the Stone Table for years.He had crossed battlefields since then. He had worn a crown. He had judged disputes between kings and spoken calmly in rooms where angry men reached for swords.Yet he had never wanted to come back here.Morning was beginning over Narnia.The great Stone Table lay split from end to end. Grass grew around its … [Read more...] about Is Aslan Jesus? What C.S. Lewis Really Meant in Narnia
The Sun Also Rises Centennial Stories: 5 Modern Lives
Introduction The Sun Also Rises Today: Five Stories About the Life That RemainsA century after The Sun Also Rises, the world looks almost nothing like Hemingway’s. We carry entire libraries in our pockets. We can work from another continent, choose from thousands of potential partners, reinvent careers, cross oceans overnight, and remain connected almost … [Read more...] about The Sun Also Rises Centennial Stories: 5 Modern Lives
The Sun Also Rises Themes & Analysis: Questions That Still Matter
Introduction A hundred years after The Sun Also Rises first appeared, the world surrounding Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley is almost unrecognizable. The wars are different, travel is faster, relationships are mediated through phones, gender roles have changed, and people possess freedoms Hemingway’s characters could scarcely have imagined. Yet the novel’s … [Read more...] about The Sun Also Rises Themes & Analysis: Questions That Still Matter
The Sun Also Rises Centennial: Are We a Lost Generation?
Introduction One hundred years after The Sun Also Rises first appeared in 1926, Ernest Hemingway’s characters still feel unexpectedly close to us.Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, Pedro Romero, and Bill Gorton lived in the shadow of the First World War. They inherited a world in which familiar ideas about patriotism, masculinity, love, religion, … [Read more...] about The Sun Also Rises Centennial: Are We a Lost Generation?
The Antidote by Jesse Lee Peterson: Anger, Forgiveness & Freedom
Introduction What if the person controlling your life isn't standing in front of you anymore?It might be the father who left, the mother who hurt you, the person who betrayed you, or someone whose apology you have waited years to hear. Jesse Lee Peterson's The Antidote begins with a provocative idea: anger, blame, resentment, and victimhood can keep the past … [Read more...] about The Antidote by Jesse Lee Peterson: Anger, Forgiveness & Freedom
One God, Three Messengers: Jesus, Muhammad & Rev. Moon
Introduction On September 30, 2026, a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv nearly fell from the sky. The co-pilot attacked the captain with the cockpit's emergency axe, and the plane plunged thousands of feet. The captain was wounded but still got the cockpit door open, and passengers rushed in and overpowered the attacker. Reserve pilots landed safely in Saudi … [Read more...] about One God, Three Messengers: Jesus, Muhammad & Rev. Moon
When Love Outlives Death: Grief, Consciousness & Connection
Introduction What happens to love when someone dies?The body is gone. The chair is empty. The phone no longer rings with that person's name. Yet something strange remains.We still speak to them in our thoughts. We repeat their sayings. We make their recipes. We hear their voice in our memory. Sometimes we dream about them with such clarity that waking feels … [Read more...] about When Love Outlives Death: Grief, Consciousness & Connection
Anunnaki, Reincarnation & Afterlife: 5 Mysteries
Introduction What if the person we think we are is only one small expression of something far greater?Psychic medium and trance channeler Cindy Riggs opens that possibility through experiences involving spirit guides, higher selves, angels, extraterrestrial consciousness, reincarnation, probable futures, and communication beyond ordinary physical perception. … [Read more...] about Anunnaki, Reincarnation & Afterlife: 5 Mysteries
The Fourth Turning Stories: Five Lives in a Changing World
Introduction Neil Howe:When Bill Strauss and I began studying generations, we were interested in something larger than predicting events. We wanted to understand how history shapes people, and how those people, as they grow older, eventually shape history themselves.But historical change rarely feels historical while you are living through it.It feels like a … [Read more...] about The Fourth Turning Stories: Five Lives in a Changing World