Essay One: Having Faith in Faith
Mother Teresa “I have no faith”
Antony Flew
Francis Schaeffer, The God Who Is There
C. S. Lewis, “Religion: Reality or Substitute?”
George MacDonald, Warlock o’Glenwarlock
Essay Two: Where Were You on…?
9/11
Kennedy assassination
Lewis, prayer in congressional record Sept. 11, 1962
Essay Three: Monsters of Our Own Making
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Ahmadinejad visit to Ground Zero
Shelley biographical info
Essay Four: They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Shirts
Hypocrisy and inconsistency
“Christian” pop culture
George MacDonald, The Princess and Curdie
Essay Five: You Are What You Eat
Food analogies in feeding the soul
George MacDonald, The Princess and Curdie, Lilith
“The Consumer and the Church: A Modern Parable”
Essay Six: The Best Horrible Book You’ll Ever Read
“Rocky Horror Picture Show”
George MacDonald, Lilith
Dying to self-interest
Essay Seven: Narrow Minded
Culturally relevant worship
Parkinson, Hawkins, Reveal: Where Are You?
Poem, “A Narrow Escape”
Essay Eight: Growing Up with Handel’s Messiah
Musical tastes
G. F. Handel
Greeley Chorale concert
Essay Nine: A Beautiful Time of Year
Berlin, “White Christmas”
Rosetti, “In the Bleak Mid-winter”
Essay Ten: Dant-e’s E-ferno
problems with modern technology
technological “sins”
Dante, The Divine Comedy
