Critics of The Pilgrim's Progress the Second Part (Part II, 1684) complain about it lacking drama: the route is much the same, the danger is escalated in number of fight encounters at the same time as being trivialized by protector Great-Heart's swift victories. The family dynamics dwell on instruction to women and children, there are arrangements for marriage, and a clutter of other underdeveloped support cast members are picked up and folded into the pilgrim group along the

Hot on the heels (well, in publishing terms) of Into the Pilgrimverse came the Norton Library Series edition of The Pilgrim's Progress . This project took 3 years to complete and gave me a new and deepening friendship with my co-editor, Margaret Breen of the University of Connecticut. We "zoomed" from our desks a continent apart for over 500 hours, at my best guess, before we submitted the final proofs after 3 rounds of revisions. And we only finally met in person this summe

I’ve written a number of academic articles. I’m so grateful for the editors and anonymous peer-reviewers who have given of their time and expertise to help refine those arguments. These articles inevitably use scholarly terms as short-hand pointers to discussions that are known in the field of study. That’s why articles in peer-reviewed journals can read like insider talk to any curious readers from outside of academia. And my students in a general education class at Biola Un

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...