A literary reflection by Davis Smith on Homer’s Odyssey. This is one installment of a monthly series providing reflections on works of literature from a Lutheran perspective. No finer, greater gift in the world than that … when man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. –Odyssey, 6.200–202 The

Catherine and Heathcliff’s pseudo-love is an obsession absolutely turned inward, a snake eating itself which, in its appetite, finds destruction.

My Ántonia invites the reader to look closely at one life, so closely that it becomes a window for looking at one’s own life, and every human life.

Adam and Eve may have been tempted by the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; readers of Paradise Lost are tempted instead by the character of Satan himself.

Seeing Silas through the lens of Jesus and the false accusations He bore up under is a fruitful endeavor.

When we learn to pay close attention to created gifts, how much more joy will we find in attending to the gifts of Word and Sacrament, and to the Giver Himself.

Without a doubt, there is nothing more essential to child’s play than the imagination.