In class seminar today we discussed Christian and Faithful's meeting with Talkative. We recognized that in our Christian university...

... and John Bunyan, in dreaming persona, asks them if they are merely for talking at the ale-bench, or if their lives conform to...

I'm glad of my Biola office with a desk that can adjust heights - to let me stand or sit as I work. At home the situation is a little...

Whereas his family wanted him to sleep off his confused state of mind, the burdened man spends his night time in 'sighs and tears.' I...

Illustrated with William Blake’s sketch of Faithful’s fiery carriage up to heaven from his place of execution in Vanity, the...

Tamsin Spargo (2015) ‘Writers and Their Works’ British Council/ Northcote House Publishers Ltd. 103pp Spargo’s John Bunyan is really the...

There'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...

Some people’s Christianity is way too touchy-feely, we sometime conclude. Sometimes this critical appraisal is meant metaphorically –...

John Bunyan, by Simonetta Carr, Grand Rapids, MI, Reformation Heritage Books, 2020 In the Christian Biographies for Young Readers series,...

Although undated, the rather tatty copy of Pilgrim's Progress I've recently come across has the copyright date of 1904 under the cover...

Principle 3 is Baptism. Q: Who should be baptized? A: Having begun the Christian journey by turning my life over to God and trusting by...

The reformed tradition shapes English Puritanism that in turn informs Bunyan and The Pilgrim's Progress. It also throws up Apartheid-era...

Principle 2 is Faith, and the catechesis articulates the question and answer like this: Q: What is faith? A: Faith is trusting that my...

Principles 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...

Peter Morden's 2013 biography of Bunyan, subtitled, 'The People's Pilgrim', matches the promise of the colorful cover art by being a very...

Rather than writing as the Interpreter, Freeman breaks character in his ‘Preface’ to explain the reasons for the book. I wish this had...

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...

Curtis Freeman has written a little catechesis entitled 'Pilgrim Letters' drawing on this lifelong companionship with Bunyan's classic. I...

My Pilgrim's Progress class is a hybrid class, with recorded lectures and discussions fully online with a number of synchronous online...

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...