George Eliot
The Ever-Present According to George Eliot
A fantastic quote from her novel Middlemarch concerning, interestingly enough, a devoutly Christian man. She wrote like […]
On Symbols, Dutiful Wives, and Religious Recessions
(Spoilers for George Eliot’s Middlemarch ahead.) Dorothea was a devout and idealistic girl whose greatest desires […]
When I Was an Adult I Read Books, to Remain a Child
The following piece was recently shared with Mockingbird. The “librarian,” whose name is not Paul […]
George Eliot on Exhortation and Helplessness
Also from “Janet’s Repentance” in Scenes of Clerical Life. Janet Dempster, in a moment of […]
A Sympathy That Predominates: Some Anglican Evangelicals in Litera …
A companion piece to this week’s episodes of PZ’s Podcast, which deal with the Protestant […]