I am honored to have the following blurbs on the back cover of Into the Pilgrimverse : "If Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress  captures your sanctified imagination, keep your seatbelts on as Into the Pilgrimverse  will take it to places further along Christian's journey." -JOANNE JUNG, Associate Dean of Online Education and Student and Faculty Engagement, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University.   "Into the Pilgrimverse: Contemporary Reception and Adaptation of The Pilgrim's Pro

Back in 1991, Cheryl Ford first published her 'Faithfully Retold' modernization of The Pilgrim's Progress . It's one of my favorites - the best choice for students less comfortable with 17th English but needing to engage as closely as possible with the original content, including both Part I and Part II. Anyway, Ford followed up in 1998 with Devotional. Since then she has produced a reissue of the 'Faithfully Retold' and an accompanying Discipleship Course. And now, the Devot

My book is a theological exploration of various 'regions' of reception of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress , the overall geography of...

With the capable support of the good team at Wipf & Stock, my book on reception of The Pilgrim's Progress is now available for purchase...

Today, April 4th, I'm presenting at the Evangelical Theological Far West Regional Meeting in my very own building at Biola where Talbot...

My break from blogging has not been a break from writing. Unlike blogging, other academic writing takes a lot longer to work through...

There have been multiple musical adaptations of The Pilgrim's Progress for kids, as well as contemporary praise music, folk, soft-rock,...

My Pilgrim's Progress class is a general education Integration in Biola University's Bible and Theology Minor. Biola has some Integration...

Images do not tell the whole story, but they do visually illustrate parts. I've just finished work on a chapter on the visual art on...

"It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over." As mentioned in the first of these two...

What better way to signal your love of Bunyan (Bunyanphilia) than to adorn your water bottle with one of his beloved quotations from The...

I was privileged this year to offer two reflections to the Lent Project run by Biola University's Center for Christianity, Culture, and...

Curtis Freeman fulfills the promise of his concluding chapter of Pilgrim Letters in this companion volume.  It has the same attractive...

I noted last week that John Wesley, in his abridgment, changes what Christian says at the cross when his burden falls from his back. To...

An Easter Treat. Ever since singing the chorus ‘Lord of the Dance’ when I was little, I’ve associated Easter joy with dancing, even...

What does Christian see when he sees the cross? He later reports that he saw Jesus in his mind's eye, as it were. Most often, when the...

Christian is amazed that the mere sight of the cross is sufficient to release him of his burden. This burden, the marker of his...

In my previous (1 of 2) post, I ended by reading a cover from an abridged version of The Pilgrim's Progress from Abeka Press who serve...

I'm in a fruitful patch of work at the Cross of PP Part I. Last summer I had an article published by the Journal of the Evangelical...

Many commentators ascribe Robert White's famous frontispiece image of the dreaming Bunyan to the third edition of 1679. No earlier...