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Matthew Dickerson

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Matthew Dickerson on "The Hobbit" - Part 2

Did you read Part One of Matthew Dickerson's reflections on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey? If so, enjoy Part Two... What Have I Got In My Review? My Hands. String. Hopes. Fears. Maybe Nothing. Last night I watched Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I went

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Matthew Dickerson on "The Hobbit" - Part 1

In a hole in the ground, there lived a Hobbit. And on a wooded hillside in Vermont lived a writer who loved Hobbits, their homeland, and their author: J.R.R. Tolkien. I am blessed to know Matthew Dickerson and his wife Deborah as dear friends. I've been

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

The filmmakers took one children's book and expanded it into three movies. So I'll take this one movie and expand it into two movie reviews...

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How to Take A Hobbit Journey Again... For the First Time

The new trailer for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has arrived! What do you think? I first read The Hobbit when I was 7 years old, and moved right on up to The Lord of the Rings at age 8. If you're like me, you'd love to have the thrill of discovering a world as awe-inspiring as t

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Wait... Who Gets "Left Behind"?

My friend Matthew Dickerson, author of Ents, Elves and Eriador: the Environmental Vision of J.R.R.Tolkien and Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: the Environmental Vision of C.S.Lewis, presented this meditation - a challenge to the conventional understanding of "the Rapture" - at a