“Epic” by John Eldridge is an abstract sized version of his full length novel, “Waking the Dead.” What makes “Epic” unique is that he’s arranged the book into four acts. Each act takes a part of the hero journey and related the spiritual lessons to many of the famous heroes in literature: Frodo, Maximus, Neo, and others. While I liked the fleshed out version of Eldridge’s view on God’s involvement in our heroic journeys, this condensed version was a good refresher but the four acts […]
Waking the Dead (It’s Not As Zombie-Related As It Might Appear)
One element of Christianity, and by element I mean faction, is the mindset that fiction is “evil” and that somehow only “non-fiction” is pure. I didn’t grow up in that faction nor were many of my friends and family. As an English teacher in a Christian high school I have run into some resistance to literature. Fortunately, it wasn’t anything a face-to-face conversation couldn’t settle. So it was with great surprise that when I started reading John Eldredge’s Waking the Dead, that fiction, especially of […]