by Glenn Sunshine | Feb 25, 2026 | Featured, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Scouring of the Shire, the penultimate chapter of The Lord of the Rings, is often ignored. Peter Jackson left it out of the films, and readers often treat it as an afterthought to the War of the Ring and the events on Mount Doom. But Tolkien himself suggests...
by Glenn Sunshine | Feb 14, 2026 | Book Reviews, Books, Church Year, Featured, Poetry
In many ways, Lent is a more difficult period for selecting devotional readings than Advent is. The biblical themes surrounding Advent are clear, but until you get to Holy Week, Lent seems less clearly defined. Its overall theme of preparation to celebrate the Passion...
by Glenn Sunshine | Feb 10, 2026 | Bible & Theology, Featured
The Bible doesn’t tell us much if anything about people’s internal states—their emotions, psychology, motives, and thoughts—except through reporting their words and actions. Why is this? There is an important theological reason , but it is also an invitation for us to...
by Glenn Sunshine | Feb 5, 2026 | C.S. Lewis, Culture, Featured, Worldview
C.S. Lewis says that nature tends to answer the questions we ask her. He argues that the change from the medieval to the modern worldview did not come from new information but from changes in mindset that led to us asking different questions of the world. This article...
by Glenn Sunshine | Jan 5, 2026 | Church Year, Culture
It’s the Twelfth Day of Christmas. (Yes, we aren’t done with the Christmas season just yet.) Here are some traditions associated with Twelfth Night, the climax of the Christmas season in the Middle Ages through the Tudor period.
