For Lent

When tempted to despair, the Psalms of lament help us learn to speak grief and hope in the same breath. Paul Buckley, at an Imagination Redeemed Conference breakout session, explores (and yes, sings) Psalms of lament. Watch Now →

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ON TEARS, LAMENT, AND LENT

The Battle with Despair

Elizabeth Bam joins the Imagination Redeemed podcast to discuss stories from the Faerie Queen and the Shawshank Redemption in an exploration of how to battle despair.

C.S. Lewis, God, and Tears (feat. Michael Ward)

Dr. Michael Ward uses various writings of C.S. Lewis as literary illumination to help us understand joy and tears even more deeply.

Meeting God in Our Tears (Bonus Episode)

Chase Whitney emphasizes the significance of tears as a uniquely human experience, and discusses how joy and tears can make room for each other as we seek God in our lives.

How Faith Defeats Us

A reflection on Reformation
poetry and its glimpse into
the death found in faith,
and the life given through
grace.

A Longing Rooted in Loss

Sometime in the 10th century, an Old English poem is recorded in a book donated to Exeter Cathedral — a poem about an unmoored exile who has lost his home and now roves the earth searching for a new one.

What Lent Feels Like

But for now, it is enough to get back up and roll away the stone.

What Christians Get Wrong about Lent

Exploring how Lent is
“the spring of hope,” just
like the season itself.

Working Through Lent with Dante

Imagination Redeemed Podcast (March Episode)

In every episode, we retell one of the great stories, then follow its illumination to delve deeper into conversation about how to enter into the life of the Christian imagination.

“The Battle with despair”

Being in the grip of despair is hard to describe. Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queen gives image to not only the Cave of Despair, but also what restoration looks like.

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