Tag Archives: Imagination

Gods Speaks through the Imagination

By Robin Bates | Published: October 8, 2022

Jesus’s parables are exercises in imagining the kingdom of heaven come to earth.

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Aslan as Eco Warrior

By Robin Bates | Published: August 26, 2021

Lewis’s Aslan is a bold creative stroke that opens up environmental possibilities for Christianity.

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Poetry: Sure Solacer of Human Cares

By Robin Bates | Published: November 12, 2016

For those trapped in gloom, Emily Bronte reminds us that the Imagination is there to provide us with solace.

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Lewis Carroll’s Revolt against “Reality”

By Robin Bates | Published: March 12, 2014

“Alice in Wonderland” was Carroll’s protest against Victorian society.

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How to Imagine Peace

By Robin Bates | Published: February 24, 2013

For Levertov, peace is made in the act of imagining it.

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Bored Students, Don’t Forget Lyre Bird

By Robin Bates | Published: December 14, 2012

Jacques Prévert’s lyre bird comes to the rescue of bored students everywhere.

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Quixote’s Battle for Imagination

By Robin Bates | Published: October 6, 2011

In a short poem about about Sancho Panza and one of the windmills, Scott Bates describes Don Quixote’s sidekick as common sense reality robbing life of imagination.

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