Harper Lee, who died on February 19, 2016, understood the things of the earth. In his classic novel O Sol é para todos (José Olympio?2015), descriptions of velvety camellias, languid houses and gravel-crushed shoes have painted a world we recognize. We also recognize the people of your world. There were oppressors and oppressed, hypocritical and […]
I spent a year of my life playing Nick Carraway, the narrator of O Grande Gatsby (Penguim-Cia das Letras, 2011). This was after responding to a simple advertisement in a newspaper: “1 bedroom chalet, facing the sea. $215 a month. Ref. Req ?. The owner was an expatriate Polish aristocrat, whose character evoked royalty. The
“For starters, is Christ alive? If Charles Dickens had been inspired to write a New Testament book, do I suspect this would have been the beginning?Because this truth is the foundation of Christianity: “And if Christ is not risen, is your faith vain?Are you still in your sins? (1 Corinthians 15:17) But this heading is,
My first contact with Graham Greene’s End of Case came when I did a critical analysis of Neil Jordan’s film adaptation, with Ralph Fiennes and Juliane Moore, for my college magazine. There was a spirit of something intriguing in faith and disbelief, but everything seemed dimmed, obscured, tarnished by the sentimental romanticism characteristic of Hollywood
Secular Romance Series We Recommend John Piper, in the article Can Christians benefit from secular books? declares that all our readings, Christian or non-Christian, aim to know God better, man, the ways of God and the ways of man, so that we can more fully obey what God says and be more useful in achieving
