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That asked, I realized after I posted that the image I chose to decorate with here is probably lost on sophistcated readers — it’s a photo from the ‘Twilight’ movies about a teenaged girl in love with a vampire.

My point is, of course, that the Gospel even lines out the true boundaries of tragedy, and therefore comedy, and gives us the broad perspective on all forms of dramatic and epic narrative. Even the lowly novel has the opportunity to be better than a G-rated moralistic story.

There’s so much to be said about this. This is just a starting place.

I keep meditating back to a long-ago lecture at my Christian college where my prof hammered home the idea of Christian truth being sublime – which he defined as Beauty + Terror.

Love and death converge in a symbol of monstrous torture rendered impotent.

Not all art needs to be happily-ever-after marriages and ducks and bunnies to be true and beautiful.

N’est ce pas?

Got some friends whose pastor, on Easter Sunday, decided to preach, “What’s on your Bucket List?” Because that’s a, you know, more relevant story to our culture.

Thanks for the post, Frank.