Cultivating the Christian Imagination

In our present time, it’s no use denying the importance of language and terms. Within literary theory is a view that the meaning of a text comes primarily from the reader and not the author. While I won’t deny that an audience plays a role in interpreting and applying a text, I think the author plays the key role in defining what the text means. If this was not the case, then we or those around us (like politicians) wouldn’t spend so much time arguing what we said was not wha

Editor's note: This article was originally published for LifeHouse Theater's blog, "The President's Perspective." When I was teenager, I needed to get some tests done in the hospital. Nothing too out of the ordinary, except that it required me to arrive the next morning at the hospital sleep deprived! So the night before my tests, my mom and I pulled an all nighter. We bought a night’s supply of popsicles -- or we already had them and I just ate that many -- and prepared to s