John Milton - Jeffrey Overstreet

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John Milton

A collection of 3 posts

On Books & Writing

A Little Milton on a Monday Afternoon

My new friend Kelly Foster just emailed this to me. It's a quote from John Milton's Areopagitica, which I haven't read since 1991, so it's time to revisit it: He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming

Through a Screen Darkly

The Perilous Road of Engaging Our Culture

On Friday, I spoke to a class of English literature students at Seattle Pacific University. I told them about my life at the movies, about the varoius warnings I've heard from Christians over the years about the dangers of movies like... oh... The Empire Strikes Back, Harry Potter

On Movies & Media

John Milton's Paradise Lost... the Movie

Milton did a better job of "justifying the ways of God to man" than these filmmakers could do of justifying the adaptation of this epic poem into a movie... Paradise Lost