Executive elder at Church of the King, Newburgh, IN.
Jul 20, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Your kids have already devoured Narnia and Lord of the Rings? Here are some other fantasy novels to edify, terrify, and amuse without pumping their minds full of garbage:🧵
Five Children and It | Edith Nesbit arguably invented modern children's fantasy. This one is about, yep, five children who find a Puddlegum-ish "sand fairy." He grants wishes that go very wrong, and the results make for a charming adventure.
See also: the rest of the series
May 29, 2023 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 1) "This epistle "disagrees" with other epistles by the same guy ... Paul uses different vocabulary here than here ... the Bible wasn't written by who it says it is!!!!"
This is some of the cheapest criticism of the Bible that people make. I hate it.
2) It’s the kind of criticism that snotty professors use to say Shakespeare couldn’t have possibly written the plays bearing his name because how could he know so many things, how could he adopt so many points of view???