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We all know the powers of words, written and spoken. But, images speak too - very, very powerfully. This is why small children’s literature most often includes illustrations alongside text. What should we do with the now-very-popular wordless picture books?
Matt, Mandy, and Christina sit down at the digital pub table to discuss Susanna Clarke's 2020 novel, Piranesi.
Matt and Christina sit down with SD Smith, author of the popular Green Ember series, and JC Smith to talk about what it's like to write your first successful story.
Brian Wight tells the story of how he went from a teenage musician living out of his car to a successful musician and producer. He also shares his compulsion to compose music, and discusses why he’d still create if he was alone in the wilderness.
The cohosts discuss how resolutions are used in some of our favorite stories and why they're so important in the stories of our own lives.
Justin Gerhardt sits down at the virtual pub table with Matt and Evangeline to discuss his journey of bringing great storytelling together with the Great Story.
Understanding the dignity and responsibility inherent in the role of naming not only allows us to better understand our relationship with the created order, but also our relationship with God, the first Creator and Namer.
The cohosts sit down at the digital pub table to discuss the assumptions behind the concept of the platform. Matt also makes an exciting announcement.
Matt and Mandy sit down with fellow novelist Tracy Higley to discuss writing and the concept of an inner world of Joy.
Matt, Mandy, and Evangeline discuss the criteria for whether a movie should be considered a Christmas movie and then discuss a number of “close calls” to determine which are properly Christmas movies and which are imposters.
In this episode, Glenn Paauw shows us how the movement of the biblical narrative is always toward God entering into our time more and more deeply.
In this episode, Heidi White explores the posture that can enable Christians to be conservers of the goodness and beauty they’ve inherited, and restorers of things that have been broken.
Evangeline, Mandy, and Christina sit down at the digital pub table to talk about thin places: what are they, how do we experience them, and should seek out the experiences of thin places?
Matthew Clark reads his chapter on subcreation. When we understand it properly, our subcreation is a middle act between God’s first creation and His second—and the culture we build together becomes, as Andy Crouch put it, part of “the furniture of eternity.”
From a line-up of 20 literary characters curated by Matt Mellema four guests compete before a live audience to draft the perfect pub table for a night of stimulating and imaginative conversation.
We often assume that stories are told for good - and when told for the right reasons, they are. But the power of stories has another side, and that's its potential for misuse and potential for danger.
Christina, Matt, and Evangeline discuss what makes a good female protagonist. They dissect some examples from popular stories in an attempt to determine which characteristics we should look for in stories that prominently feature a female lead.
Sometimes you try to convince people to love what you love. And sometimes, other people try to convince you to like what they like. What keeps us from liking some art forms? How can we learn to cultivate an appreciation for the art forms that are not our first loves?
The cohosts discuss how the many garden-related and cultivating-related themes and metaphors in the Bible may begin to make more sense through the practical experience of getting our hands dirty and paying attention to the things that grow in the ground.
Matt sits down with Peter Atkinson and Kiley Hatch of the Merry Beggars to talk about the making of their 21-part radio drama On the Night Train.
