Truth or Literature

By Heidi Reinold

The study of common literature is often about selling literature, putting its author on a pedestal at the expense of serious critical thinking. Good critical thinking about literature is neither idola... more

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The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.

Truth or Literature episodes:

August 17, 2024 Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter: No Jesus, No Peace
This is a Christian perspective of the famous classic. How much does it agree with or contradict Scripture?
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19min
December 31, 2023 F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: Social Prejudice and the Eyes of God
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24min
February 14, 2023 Robert Frost's "Mending Wall": Boundaries and Loving Our Neighbors
What does neighborly love look like? Does Robert Frost represent that love in his poem "Mending Wall"?
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18min
November 26, 2022 "The Chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes: Growing With God Without Guilt
What does Oliver Wendell Holmes see, and what should we see, in God's creation of the chambered nautilus?
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16min
June 08, 2022 From The Raven's 'Nevermore' to Forevermore: Is Edgar Allan Poe in Heaven?
What did Edgar Allan Poe think about God and Christianity? His poem The Raven suggests a turning point in his life.

References and transcript at TruthorLiterature.blogspot.com
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20min
February 22, 2022 William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis": Death and Nature Without Resurrection
What can Nature alone really teach us about Death?

Find the transcript and references for this podcast at TruthorLiterature.blogspot.com
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16min
December 01, 2021 Freedom and God in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
A Christian perspective on freedom and Christianity as satirized in Huckleberry Finn, with connections to the personal beliefs that Mark Twain concealed for years.

Transcript and references can be found at TruthorLiterature.blogspot.com
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21min
October 26, 2021 John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men: The Best Laid Plans Need God's Grace
How much was George's fault?

This is a Christian perspective, especially for Christian students in public schools. It includes comments about handling the profanity.

The transcript and references can be found at:

TruthorLiterature.blogspot.com
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21min
September 11, 2021 The Bible and Other Books: "Upon the Burning of Our House" and Fahrenheit 451
Twenty years after September 11, 2001, we look back at where America began spiritually and where it is today.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12

Find the transcript and references for this podcast at

TruthorLiterature.blogspot.com

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23min
August 06, 2021 Arthur Miller's The Crucible: A Christian Perspective
Adding a Christian voice to the discussion of the almost universal study of a mistelling of an Early American tragedy.

For the transcript and references for this episode, visit TruthorLiterature.blogspot.com

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24min

FAQs about Truth or Literature:

How many episodes does Truth or Literature have?

The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.