I met a dragon face to facethe year when I was ten,I took a trip to outer space,I braved a pirate's den,I wrestled with a wicked troll,and fought a great white shark,I trailed a rabbit down a hole,I hunted for a snark. I stowed aboard a submarine,I opened magic doors,I traveled in a time machine,and …
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When I published my first book, Names, Nations, and the New Testament, I told myself I would never do another book with images. That book was fraught with issues. I changed my formatting and notes halfway through (zero stars; I do not recommend doing that) and hand-drew my own maps for my book. While those …
Around three years ago, I was holding my son in my mother's kitchen. I think we were making pretzels. My baby was in one of my favorite onesies for him: it had little stripes and a little sauropod dinosaur sticking its head out of his shirt pocket. It was one of the few items I …
In the last installment, we talked about the utopian aspects of Raya and the Last Dragon and how true unity and peace can only be found in Christ. Here we will talk about the deeper religious aspects of this film and what that implies about our own culture. Though our culture tries to escape it, …
Continue reading Christ and Culture: Heaven On Earth and a Little Bit of Faith in Raya (Part 2)
As I am a mom, I happen to watch a lot of movies nowadays. Some I enjoy more than others, but I watch a lot of them regardless. I’ve noticed that there are a few in particular that my daughter loves. At the time of my writing this, my daughter had been sick for about …
Continue reading Christ and Culture: Heaven On Earth and a Little Bit of Faith in Raya (Part 1)
Madelyn Rose Craig 