andydraycott7Apr 12, 20213 minCatechesis by the letter # 7Illustrated with William Blake’s sketch of Faithful’s fiery carriage up to heaven from his place of execution in Vanity, the...
andydraycott7Apr 11, 20214 minWriters and Their Work, Tamsin Spargo's John BunyanTamsin Spargo (2015) ‘Writers and Their Works’ British Council/ Northcote House Publishers Ltd. 103pp Spargo’s John Bunyan is really the...
andydraycott7Apr 7, 20211 minAdding your own color to The Pilgrim's ProgressThere's a pop book, a children's choir musical and several board games, but one way to capture a young reader is to offer them the change...
andydraycott7Apr 6, 20212 minCatechesis by the letter # 6Some people’s Christianity is way too touchy-feely, we sometime conclude. Sometimes this critical appraisal is meant metaphorically –...
andydraycott7Apr 5, 20215 minChristian Biographies for Young Readers (2020)John Bunyan, by Simonetta Carr, Grand Rapids, MI, Reformation Heritage Books, 2020 In the Christian Biographies for Young Readers series,...
andydraycott7Apr 4, 20214 minColportage-"Book Missionary," Pilgrim's Progress, and Milton PierpointAlthough undated, the rather tatty copy of Pilgrim's Progress I've recently come across has the copyright date of 1904 under the cover...
andydraycott7Apr 1, 20212 minCatechesis by the letter # 5Principle 3 is Baptism. Q: Who should be baptized? A: Having begun the Christian journey by turning my life over to God and trusting by...
andydraycott7Mar 26, 20212 minIs there no balm in Gilead? Reading reflections on raceThe reformed tradition shapes English Puritanism that in turn informs Bunyan and The Pilgrim's Progress. It also throws up Apartheid-era...
andydraycott7Mar 24, 20212 minCatechesis by the letter #4Principle 2 is Faith, and the catechesis articulates the question and answer like this: Q: What is faith? A: Faith is trusting that my...
andydraycott7Mar 17, 20212 minCatechesis by the letter # 3Principles 1: Repentance I used to write letters. Perhaps some of you did too. If you were going to go to the bother and spend the sum on...
andydraycott7Mar 14, 20212 minThe People's PilgrimPeter Morden's 2013 biography of Bunyan, subtitled, 'The People's Pilgrim', matches the promise of the colorful cover art by being a very...
andydraycott7Mar 11, 20213 minCatechesis by the letter #2Rather than writing as the Interpreter, Freeman breaks character in his ‘Preface’ to explain the reasons for the book. I wish this had...
andydraycott7Mar 10, 20212 minIf you give a missionary Pilgrim's Progress... Along the lines of 'If you give a mouse a cookie...', I noticed a feature of Tyler Van Halteren's children's adaptation of PP: Little...
andydraycott7Mar 9, 20212 minCatechesis by the letter #1Curtis Freeman has written a little catechesis entitled 'Pilgrim Letters' drawing on this lifelong companionship with Bunyan's classic. I...
andydraycott7Nov 13, 20202 minAdaptation Bonanza for Fall 2020 class, and Christmas gift tip.My Pilgrim's Progress class is a hybrid class, with recorded lectures and discussions fully online with a number of synchronous online...
andydraycott7Oct 12, 20202 minAs I walked...(Part 1)The famous first words of Bunyan's book are memorably alliterative when read in full context. For now I'm happy to keep a snail's pace in...
andydraycott7Oct 2, 20201 minBlogging Biographies: an unfolding seriesJohn Bunyan famously records his own spiritual autobiography under the title borrowed from the Apostle Paul 'Grace Abounding to the Chief...
andydraycott7Sep 24, 20201 minShould The Pilgrim's Progress be professed?If professing is meant to be about Christian confession, isn't it a misstep to have a website devoted to The Pilgrim's Progress rather...
andydraycott7Sep 24, 20201 minProfessors to look up to - Bunyan ScholarsCollected editions of scholarly essays like the Cambridge Companion to John Bunyan and the Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan glitter with...
andydraycott7Sep 23, 20201 minProfessing in The Pilgrim's ProgressWhen John Bunyan writes about professors in The Pilgrim's Progress he isn't writing about people like me who teach and research in a...