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...

Curtis Freeman ends his collection of letters from Pilgrim's Progress's Interpreter to the newly baptized believer with a Conclusion...

We have the warning that you should not judge a book by its cover precisely because we do. In fact, cover exist, at least latterly, to...

This last week my class has been exploring some adaptation theory and theologizing to frame their own exploration of Pilgrim's Progress...

(It's been a long time since I intended to finish blogging thoughts in response to each chapter of Curtis Freeman's excellent book,...

You may be familiar with the nineteenth century spiral map of Christian's journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. In...