The imagination as the forgotten power of the mind
When we think of the mind, we tend to think of the intellect, our ability to reason and understand. But the mind has many other facets: We experience our emotions in our minds. Another mental...
View ArticleImagination and the arts
More from my interview with Mathew Block, who asks about the connection between the imagination and the fine arts. CL: How do the fine arts—music, literature, the visual arts, and so forth—reflect the...
View ArticleImagination, Christian sub-cultures, & the Two Kingdoms
More from my interview with Mathew Block, in which a question about Christians refusing to attend to music, movies, books, or the like unless they are explicitly Christian, leads to a digression on the...
View ArticleHow God uses the imagination
More from my interview with Mathew Block, who asks how God uses our human imaginations to reach us. CL: How does God use imagination to address humanity? We believe in the Incarnation—that God became...
View ArticleImaginative obstacles to the faith
In the interview with Mathew Block, we got into the role of the imagination in apologetics, which I discuss at length in my upcoming book with Matthew Ristuccia. Here I discuss how many people’s...
View ArticleImaginative Apologetics
From my interview with Mathew Block, in which we discuss “imaginative apologetics.” CL: This ties in to what you and others call ‘imaginative apologetics.’ How does awakening the imagination open...
View ArticleImagination & the Christian life
Mathew Block concludes his interview by asking me about what Christians can do to cultivate the imaginative life, as I have been describing it. CL: What can people in the church do practically to...
View ArticleMy new book on the imagination
I have published a new book, one that I collaborated on with Matt Ristuccia, an evangelical pastor in Princeton. It’s called Imagination Redeemed: Glorifying God with a Neglected Part of Your Mind....
View ArticleA perceptive review of our book on the Imagination
The always-interesting Greg Forster has written a very perceptive review of the new book I wrote with Matt Ristuccia: Imagination Redeemed. The best reviews not only tell about a book but contribute...
View ArticleWhen children played
Did you know there was a time when children on their own played games, sang songs, collected things, and had fun outside? The Intercollegiate Review has posted an excerpt from the estimable Anthony...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Boredom
When we were raising our children, there were some words that we did not allow to be spoken in our house. One was the F-word: “Fair.” As in, “That’s not fair that he gets to go to bed later than I...
View ArticleMemory
Memorial Day is a time to remember those who gave their lives for us and our departed loved ones. It is also a good time to reflect upon memory, one of the superpowers of the human mind.
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