Guides to The Odyssey
Leland Ryken, one of the great literary minds of the 20th and 21st centuries, wrote a helpful short guide to The Odyssey. His great contribution is making the famous Greek narrative epic understandabl..
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The Odyssey
No book has had a more significant impact on the Western world and literature outside of the Bible than Homer’s Odyssey. The great literary philosopher Leland Ryken noted that it (along with Hom..
Why Every Student Should Become a Lifelong Reader
A friend, JP Shafer, shares the value of collecting and reading the best books...
How To Be A Friend
Cicero, the great Roman orator and statesman, wrote a short book on friendship that is helpful. By an older character talking to two younger men, he makes the case that friendship is critical to happi..
A Well-Ordered Life
As a Christian, I enjoy hearing preachers explain Bible texts. The Bible contains 66 books that form a unified whole. Each book has a purpose and a unique message, but the Bible can and should be read..
Becoming C.S. Lewis
Although C.S. Lewis’s writings and adult life are well-known, his childhood, adolescence, and the influences that shaped him are less so. Harry Lee Poe’s Becoming C.S. Lewis, the first of ..
Inklings Fellowship Events
The Inklings Fellowship is hosting two Narnia-related events in 2025. One will be in North Carolina in April and the other at Oxford University in July. The host is Harry Lee Poe, retired Union Univer..
Narnia on Stage
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will soon be performed at the Bible Museum’s theater in Washington, D.C. I went to The Horse and His Boy a couple of years ago. It was very well done. The th..
Jesus The Great Philosopher
Jesus The Great Philosopher provides a helpful introduction to ancient Greek philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and the big philosophical domains they explored. The domains are what ..
May 2025 Armenia Tour
I am co-leading a tour with Chuck Holton to Armenia this spring. Armenia is a conservative, first-world country landlocked between Turkey to the west and Azerbaijan to the east. The capital, Yerevan, ..