Essay One: The High Cost of Heart Surgery
Eternal purposes of suffering
Poem, “Open Heart Surgery”
Essay Two: Utopian Spirit
New England Transcendentalists
Louisa May Alcott biographical info
Nathan Meeker and the founding of Greeley, Colorado
Culture in Greeley
The Greeley Chorale
Essay Three: Unjust Criticism
Charlotte Bronte, Shirley
Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
L. M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
Marxist/feminist literary criticism
C. S. Lewis, “On Science Fiction”
Essay Four: Unjust Criticism, part two: a case study
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Carroll biographical information
Essay Five: Feminist or Feminine?
Charlotte Bronte
Louisa May Alcott
L. M. Montgomery
Dorothy L. Sayers, “ Are Women Human?”
Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey stories
Susan Coolidge, What Katy Did
Women of virtue
Essay Six: Energy Conservation, Horse Manure, and the 21st Century
Charlotte Bronte, Shirley
ZAP cars
low energy light bulbs
social impact of technology
Essay Seven: A Really Inconvenient Truth
Eliot Spitzer moral failure
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Sexual misconduct and selfishness
Essay Eight: Reward Points for Nothing
George MacDonald, Phantastes
C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Search for significance, success
Poem, “For Nothing: A Failure for Jesus”
Essay Nine: By the Sea, by the Sea, by the Beautiful Sea
L. E. Singer, “Finally Home”
C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Great Divorce, Perelandra
Essay Ten: Solar Energy
Alternative energy
Light as energy and life
S. I. Swinney, Confessions of a Rocket Scientist
C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Ben Stein, Expelled documentary
John Keble, “Sun of my Soul”
Essay Eleven: Autumn Fruit
Psalm 92
Fruit in old age
Essay Twelve: Grow Like a Weed
Overcoming difficult circumstances
Shawna Nelson murder trial
Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
L. M. Montgomery, Among the Shadows
Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club
Essay Thirteen: Eighty-Eight Bells
Brevity of earthly life
John Donne, “Death, Be Not Proud”, Meditation 17, Meditation 18
