Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Literature & Poetry”
To Beach Their Own: Beach Reads are Real Reads Happy Summer. I don’t know about you, but when I go to the beach, I immediately want to perfect my backstroke in the ocean, windsurf, and play an intense five rounds of beach volleyball. Okay, I’m absolutely kidding. If I go to the beach, I want to sit in a turtleneck …
A24 studios has recently released a new trailer for the film The Green Knight, an adaptation of the wonderful medieval Arthurian poem Gawain and the Green Knight. Along with the trailer – which revealed much more about the film than previous teasers – was a promised release in July. (The studio delayed sending the film to theaters last year due to …
“I am [in your world],” said Aslan. “But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.” — C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader When we think of …
What a read. What a brilliant, dense, and far-reaching study of the relationship between art, artist, and the living Creator. Makoto Fujimura’s Art + Faith: A Theology of Making hits deeply upon so many different roads one can take at the many-pronged intersection of art, work, faith, theology, productivity, humanity, and eternity. In this decided fullness, the book feels almost conclusive, even though it swims in a topic that is (wonderfully) inexhaustible…
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Dr. Benjamin Myers’ upcoming book A Poetics of Orthodoxy, which will be released by Cascade Books. We are pleased to present this excerpt exclusively on the Forefront Festival blog.Many modern patterns of thought conspire against beauty. The soft utilitarianism that saturates our society tells us that beauty is just a distraction from …
The world watched in horror as yet another Black man gasped for air, murdered on camera. In those final moments, George Floyd called out to his mother, except his mother was not alive. She had passed away two years prior, giving this cry the transcendent anguish of one who knew he was about to die. But this is not the …
A great fear has gripped our world in recent weeks. With frightening swiftness we have been swept into a historical moment that is both unprecedented and familiar, and will require the heroic resolve of medical professionals and policy makers to see us through this crisis. As this disease continues to reveal the fragility of our life together and confront us …
I just saw the new Little Women film, directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet and others. It is fantastic. Unlike so many remakes and adaptations of classic and beloved stories (in my experience) this film held all the magic and emotional power as the original Louisa May Alcott novel, first published in 1868. As …
Spirit guides, time travel, and theology: seemingly polar concepts and yet they are the pillars of Madeleine L’Engle’s most notable work, A Wrinkle in Time.The story of young Meg Murray, a social misfit who, along with her younger brother Charles Wallace and friend Calvin, embarks on an adventure across time and space in search of her captured father. Though this …
Forefront Festival board member Cody Schweickert reviews “Black Sunday,” a book of poetry by Dr. Benjamin Myers.
