Tag: The Scarlett Letter

• Building a Bridge to Puritan Days

  In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, author Neil Postman suggests that in many ways we have not so much advanced, as a culture, as we have drifted over the years. Postman seems to believe we would do well to return to and reconnect with our philosophical roots and rebuild upon them. I might say…

  Dennis Griffith

  January 4, 2011

  Christian Life, Reformed Spirituality

  Arthur Miller, Christian Life, Christian Spirituality, J.I. Packer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Neil Postman, neo-Puritan, Puritans, Spirituality, The Crucible, The Resurgence, The Scarlett Letter, Winfield Blevins

• Scarlett Letter Today

  Inspired by an analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlett Letter, on NPR’s All Things Considered, my friend Nathan Lewis probes beyond the literary and sociologic interests offered from the program.  Nathan asks two striking questions: “Have we learned from Hawthorne’s scathing presentation of hypocrissy?” “Would Hester [Prynne] be welcome in our community of faith?” I want to…

  Dennis Griffith

  May 21, 2008

  Gospel, Spiritual Formation

  All Things Considered, Hester Prynne, J.I. Packer, Jerry Bridges, Nathaniel Hawthorne, NPR, Puritanical, Puritanism, Puritans, Sin, The Scarlett Letter