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Today's story is "Hydrogen: A Recipe" from Protons and Fleurons: Twenty-Two Elements of Fiction. Plus, I tell you the origin story of this curious collection of tales!
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Today's story is "The Other Place" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I tell you about what's coming up in Season Two: the stories in my book Protons and Fleurons: Twenty-Two Elements of Fiction.
The Kickstarter has ended, but Seven Ways of Looking at the Transfiguration will be published in July 2024!
And if you, too, need good fiction and good theology at the same time, please support me on Patreon!
Today's story is "Another Name" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I muse on whether all of what we are in ourselves will be redeemed, or if some things simply have to be let go forever.
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Today's story is "Ledger" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I explain why there are women apostles hanging out at the pearly gates.
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Today's story is "Himself" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I express my cynical doubts about Maslow's hierarchy of needs. (Trust me, it ties in to the story.)
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Today's story is "Crowd" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I commend to you the 14th century Christmas poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," with suggestions about which translations to read.
Armitage translation
Tolkien translation
Tolkien critical edition
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And if you, too, need good fiction and good theology at the same time, please support me on Patreon!
Today's story is "Oh No" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I talk about what Martin Luther and G. K. Chesterton have in common.
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Today's story is "Telling" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I talk about Gone with the Wind as a novel of delusion, and what that reveals about the story against its author's intentions.
Sarah Churchwell, The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
The Rest Is History podcast episode on Gone with the Wind
Linda Stephens narration of Gone with the Wind
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And if you, too, need good fiction and good theology at the same time, please support me on Patreon!
Today's story is "Grace" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I talk about why there are unhappy endings, and whether the ultimate ending of all things will be happy or unhappy.
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Today's story is "Gray" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I talk over the details of the wonderful art on the cover of the book.
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