1. We still think we can sort own own problems with more money, more education, more resources, more techniques, more, more, more.
  2. Tolkien's hero Tom Bombadil functions to showcase the Gospel
  3. Amy Mantravadi asks if we should forgive others even if they are not repentant
  4. No plot spoilers here just some really Good News
  5. Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
  6. Human solutions to problems, important as they are, are inadequate to meet our deepest needs
  7. Christ reshapes what forgivness means and why it's important
  8. Theology and history go hand in hand in the real person of Jesus Christ, making the truth of the Gospels profoundly human and powerfully meaningful.
  9. As much as we want the glory, riches, and knowledge of Dantes, what we need is Jean Valjean's candlesticks.
  10. The joy of which Lewis speaks is a deep yearning of the soul not unlike the nostalgia we feel upon seeing a favorite childhood object once again.
  11. Of all the Inklings, Williams was certainly the most enigmatic. His mind and body were always moving.
  12. In A Hobbit, A Wardrobe and a Great War, Loconte meticulously analyzes both Lewis and Tolkien with one eye on their immediate historical context and the other on their works, letters, and diary entries.