TOPIC INDEXLiterature (22)

  1. The Great Storyteller

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    09/11/19
    8 mins
    By Sam P. Schuldheisz
    Every day, in everything we do and experience, we are busy hearing, seeing, and telling stories.

  2. The Tolkien Option: Consolation and Eucatastrophe

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    10/30/18
    12 mins
    By Sam P. Schuldheisz
    Consolation is the breath of life filling our lungs, hearts, and minds with the fresh, incorruptible air of the new creation.

  3. Our God: the God of Failures

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    06/12/18
    8 mins
    By Sam P. Schuldheisz
    God is the God of failures, for He became one for you. There is no failure of ours that is bigger than Jesus’ cross, no sin of ours that can overshadow the cross.

  4. The Tolkien Option, Part 3: Escape

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    03/28/18
    10 mins
    By Sam P. Schuldheisz
    Jesus is the great Houdini of the grave for us. And through His death, He gives us the Great Escape from death that leads to the great joy of the Resurrection.

  5. Luther the Storyteller

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    11/23/17
    10 mins
    By Sam P. Schuldheisz
    Above all, Luther understood the importance of the Biblical narrative as the story of God’s love and man’s salvation revealed in Christ Crucified.

  6. The Tolkien Option, Part 2: Recovery

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    09/27/17
    9 mins
    By Sam P. Schuldheisz
    Recovery helps us see beauty in the ordinary; the miracle and wonder of creation in the oak leaf or the evergreen needle.

  7. The Tolkien Option—Introduction

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    07/28/17
    9 mins
    By Sam P. Schuldheisz
    What do the events of good stories, like The Lord of the Rings teach us about the rise and fall of civilizations in our own world?

  8. The Great Eucatastrophe

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    04/19/17
    9 mins
    By Sam P. Schuldheisz
    Eucatastrophe combines two Greek words: ‘eu’ meaning ‘good’ (as in eulogy or euphoria), and ‘katastrophe’ for destruction.

  9. What If The Freedom Found In Fairy Tales Was True?

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    10/29/16
    8 mins
    By Sam P. Schuldheisz
    True freedom, Luther discovered, is found in Jesus crucified who sets us free.

  10. Hobbits and the Greatest Story of All

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    09/23/16
    12 mins
    By Sam P. Schuldheisz
    Fairy tales are but one chapter in the book we call storytelling. We may prefer reading other kinds of stories (mystery, science fiction, and so on).