Truth or Literature: Recent Episodes
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
This is a Christian literary analysis of Thoreau's classic essay. The transcript and sources are available at truthorliteratre.blogspot.com
This is a Christian perspective of the famous classic. How much does it agree with or contradict Scripture?
What does neighborly love look like? Does Robert Frost represent that love in his poem "Mending Wall"?
What does Oliver Wendell Holmes see, and what should we see, in God's creation of the chambered nautilus?
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
What can Nature alone really teach us about Death?
Find the transcript and references for this podcast at TruthorLiterature.blogspot.com
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
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
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
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