Joy in the Mind of the Reader
Why do some people like books so much? What is it about arbitrary lines of ink sequenced on a page of paper that gives so many so much joy? My […]
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Author: Annie Crawford
Annie Crawford is a cultural apologist, classical educator, and homeschooling mom who helped to launch An Unexpected Journal in 2017. With a Masters of Arts in Cultural Apologetics from Houston Baptist University, Annie teaches apologetics and humanities courses for Manna Classical Academy and Wilson Hill Academy and is co-founder of The Society for Women of Letters where she serves as Senior Fellow.
Gender and the Imago Dei: Together We Reflect the Image of God
In his Ransom Trilogy, C.S. Lewis ironically harnesses the futuristic genre of science fiction to retrieve something very old: what it means to be human. Lewis had warned, in his […]
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Wisdom Became Flesh and Dwelt Among Us: Pagan Dreams of the King of Kings
Of Plato’s most ambitious dialogue, the Republic, Christian scholar John Mark Reynolds writes, “In all pagan literature it is the single book that never fails to teach something new and […]
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Super-Women and the Price of Power
The idea of a heroic female warrior is not new.[1] While Wonder Woman, Black Widow, and Captain Marvel have given the trope unprecedented popularity, Homer makes the first Greek reference […]
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Hogwarts in History: The Neo-Medieval Vision of Harry Potter
In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling writes that the Dursleys “had a very medieval attitude toward magic.”[1] Here Rowling either reveals a bit of ignorance, uncharacteristic […]
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The Offering of St. Ignatius
What is a saint? Why should we give more attention to some believers than others? The disagreement between Protestants on the one hand and Roman Catholics and the Orthodox on […]
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Review: Tolkien’s Modern Reading
Long before the printing press, Solomon complained that “of the making of many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.”[1] What would […]
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The Cure Has Begun
Salvation as Illuminated by the Planetary Imagery in The Chronicles of Narnia Like most fairy tales, The Chronicles of Narnia are salvation stories. As the parables of Jesus […]
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Reviving a Sacred Imagination
In the fourth chapter of Proverbs, Solomon instructs his son to diligently tend his own soul: My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let […]
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