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Into the Pilgrimverse: the gist
My book is a theological exploration of various 'regions' of reception of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress , the overall geography of...
andydraycott7
Jul 312 min read
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Into the Pilgrimverse: blurb
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...
andydraycott7
Jul 301 min read
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Presenting: Past, Present, Future
Today, April 4th, I'm presenting at the Evangelical Theological Far West Regional Meeting in my very own building at Biola where Talbot...
andydraycott7
Apr 42 min read
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A quiet six months has been anything but....Forthcoming
My break from blogging has not been a break from writing. Unlike blogging, other academic writing takes a lot longer to work through...
andydraycott7
Dec 11, 20241 min read
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Greg Tardy's Pilgrim's Progress Jazz Suite
There have been multiple musical adaptations of The Pilgrim's Progress for kids, as well as contemporary praise music, folk, soft-rock,...
andydraycott7
May 22, 20241 min read
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Integration Seminar Creative Project - William Yujuico's Chemical Analogy
My Pilgrim's Progress class is a general education Integration in Biola University's Bible and Theology Minor. Biola has some Integration...
andydraycott7
May 2, 20243 min read
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Look who's pointing!? Cultural Visual Bias in reading PP
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...
andydraycott7
May 1, 20243 min read
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The Tale of the Wandering Epigraph, Part 2 of 2
"It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over." As mentioned in the first of these two...
andydraycott7
Apr 23, 20243 min read
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The Tale of the Wandering Epigraph, Part 1 of 2
What better way to signal your love of Bunyan (Bunyanphilia) than to adorn your water bottle with one of his beloved quotations from The...
andydraycott7
Apr 22, 20242 min read
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Moving on from Easter with Bunyan
I was privileged this year to offer two reflections to the Lent Project run by Biola University's Center for Christianity, Culture, and...
andydraycott7
Apr 8, 20241 min read
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Pilgrim Journey #1 of 10
Curtis Freeman fulfills the promise of his concluding chapter of Pilgrim Letters in this companion volume. It has the same attractive...
andydraycott7
Apr 4, 20242 min read
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More on John Wesley at the Cross in PP: Galatians 2 and 'Faith in' or 'Faith of'?
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...
andydraycott7
Apr 2, 20244 min read
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Emily Propst Dances The Pilgrim’s Progress
An Easter Treat. Ever since singing the chorus ‘Lord of the Dance’ when I was little, I’ve associated Easter joy with dancing, even...
andydraycott7
Mar 31, 20241 min read
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Good Friday at the Place of Deliverance (Part 2 of 2)
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...
andydraycott7
Mar 29, 20242 min read
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Good Friday at the Place of Deliverance (Part 1 of 2)
Christian is amazed that the mere sight of the cross is sufficient to release him of his burden. This burden, the marker of his...
andydraycott7
Mar 28, 20242 min read
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Judging The Pilgrim's Progress by its Cover (2 of 2)
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...
andydraycott7
Mar 25, 20243 min read
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On-going work: At the Cross
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...
andydraycott7
Mar 20, 20241 min read
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PP's First Visual Labelling Mistake
Many commentators ascribe Robert White's famous frontispiece image of the dreaming Bunyan to the third edition of 1679. No earlier...
andydraycott7
Mar 18, 20242 min read
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Catechesis by the letter #9 (Conclusion)
Curtis Freeman ends his collection of letters from Pilgrim's Progress's Interpreter to the newly baptized believer with a Conclusion...
andydraycott7
Mar 16, 20242 min read
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Judging The Pilgrim's Progress by its cover (1 of 2)
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...
andydraycott7
Mar 15, 20243 min read
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