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Truth or Literature

by Heidi Reinold

The study of common literature is often about selling literature, putting its author on a pedestal at the expense of serious critical thinking. Good critical thinking about literature is neither idolatrous nor iconoclastic, but instead evaluates content for it alignment with Truth. This podcast discusses literature as it relates to the Truth of Christianity. Its companion blog at TruthorLiterature.blogspot.com is a transcript and list of references for this podcast.Music: Perseverance by Travis Reinold Used with permission

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Episodes

  1. Henry David Thoreau's "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience": Caesar and God

    This is a Christian literary analysis of Thoreau's classic essay. The transcript and sources are available at truthorliteratre.blogspot.com

  2. Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance: Independence or Strong Delusion Defiance

  3. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter: No Jesus, No Peace

    This is a Christian perspective of the famous classic. How much does it agree with or contradict Scripture?

  4. F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: Social Prejudice and the Eyes of God

  5. Robert Frost's "Mending Wall": Boundaries and Loving Our Neighbors

    What does neighborly love look like? Does Robert Frost represent that love in his poem "Mending Wall"?

  6. "The Chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes: Growing With God Without Guilt

    What does Oliver Wendell Holmes see, and what should we see, in God's creation of the chambered nautilus?

  7. From The Raven's 'Nevermore' to Forevermore: Is Edgar Allan Poe in Heaven?

    What did Edgar Allan Poe think about God and Christianity? His poem The Raven suggests a turning point in his life. References and transcript at TruthorLiterature.blogspot.com

  8. William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis": Death and Nature Without Resurrection

    What can Nature alone really teach us about Death? Find the transcript and references for this podcast at TruthorLiterature.blogspot.com

  9. Freedom and God in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

    A Christian perspective on freedom and Christianity as satirized in Huckleberry Finn, with connections to the personal beliefs that Mark Twain concealed for years. Transcript and references can be found at TruthorLiterature.blogspot.com

  10. John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men: The Best Laid Plans Need God's Grace

    How much was George's fault? This is a Christian perspective, especially for Christian students in public schools. It includes comments about handling the profanity. The transcript and references can be found at: TruthorLiterature.blogspot.com

  11. The Bible and Other Books: "Upon the Burning of Our House" and Fahrenheit 451

    Twenty years after September 11, 2001, we look back at where America began spiritually and where it is today. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12 Find the transcript and references for this podcast at TruthorLiterature.blogspot.com

  12. Arthur Miller's The Crucible: A Christian Perspective

    Adding a Christian voice to the discussion of the almost universal study of a mistelling of an Early American tragedy. For the transcript and references for this episode, visit TruthorLiterature.blogspot.com

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The study of common literature is often about selling literature, putting its author on a pedestal at the expense of serious critical thinking. Good critical thinking about literature is neither idolatrous nor iconoclastic, but instead evaluates content for it alignment with Truth. This podcast discusses literature as it relates to the Truth of Christianity. Its companion blog at TruthorLiterature.blogspot.com is a transcript and list of references for this podcast.Music: Perseverance by Travis Reinold Used with permission

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Heidi Reinold

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The study of common literature is often about selling literature, putting its author on a pedestal at the expense of serious critical thinking. Good critical thinking about literature is neither idolatrous nor iconoclastic, but instead evaluates content for it alignment with Truth. This podcast...

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