An Unexpected Journal

06/04/2025

In this essay, Megan Preston Meyer connects creativity, the Trinity, dragons, and - as one might expect - supply chains.

Read here:
https://anunexpectedjournal.com/creativity-the-trinity-supply-chain-and-dragons/

02/04/2025

"The resemblance between Dante’s time and Sayers’s also drove her interest: the corruption in Dante’s day which drove his Inferno Sayers found in her own day, as she began reading Dante’s work from a World War 2 bomb shelter."

Read more here:
https://anunexpectedjournal.com/sayers-in-paradise-from-dante-to-dorothy/

30/03/2025

For Dr. Josh Herring, his relationship with Dorothy L. Sayers is... complicated.

https://anunexpectedjournal.com/the-lost-tools-of-learning-and-dorothy-l-sayers-as-a-moral-apologist/

26/03/2025

"I am not sure exactly why I, and apparently the rest of the world, love mysteries as much as I do. I think Anthony Horowitz’s book-editor-turned-detective Susan Ryeland touches close to the reason."

Check out this new piece from Abigail R. Brockmann:
https://anunexpectedjournal.com/truth-and-fair-play-in-detective-fiction-a-review-of-benjamin-stevensons-everyone-this-christmas-has-a-secret/

19/03/2025

"To what degree should a work of imagination be credited to the mind of its creator, and to what degree, to the minds that influenced its creator?"

Check out this new essay on the "unofficial Inkling" Dorothy L. Sayers:

To what degree should a work of imagination be credited to the mind of its creator, and to what degree, to the minds that influenced its creator?

16/03/2025

This new poem from J.A. Cooper begins, "I do not have a soul..."

It ends differently. And it's from our latest issue focusing on the work of Dorothy L. Sayers!

Check it out here:

I do not have a soul...

12/03/2025

"The weight of the darkness of death and life in the pit may feel unbearable but it is not the time for hopeless despair, and it is not the time to stay silent in a hopeless world of chaos and confusion."

Whether it occurs consciously or not, death holds sway as the central drama of human existence.

09/03/2025

AUJ is also on Bluesky now!

You can follow us there at this link: https://buff.ly/4kdpaZj

But whether here or there, we're using reason and imagination to advance and defend the Christian worldview.

Just as we have since 2018.

New platform. Same message.

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05/03/2025

Did you know that all past AUJ issues are available for free online?

Exploring past issues by topic is a great way to enjoy AUJ whether you're into Dragons, Mystery, Superheroes, Tolkien, Dystopia, or something else!

Check it out by issue here:

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02/03/2025

Detective fiction is the purest literature we have.

That's the claim of this new poem from Elizabeth Scott Tervo...

Click below to see how she defends it, and let us know if you agree!

The author plants a garden, with people in it...

27/02/2025

The Mere Christians C. S. Lewis Conference gladly presents a Call For Papers for the upcoming gathering in Winter Garden, FL. Our orienting theme, “Surprised By Love,” will guide us into the heart of Lewis’s life and work, with keynote talks on Till We Have Faces, Surprised by Joy, and The Great Divorce.
We encourage a wide variety of paper topics, though all papers should illuminate the conference central theme, “Surprised by Love,” and relate to at least one of the texts under consideration.

Mere Christians A C.S. Lewis Conference May 2-3, 2025 Church of the Messiah241 N. Main St.Winter Garden, FL 34787 Register Now! Day(s) : Hour(s) : Minute(s) : Second(s) About the Event 2025: Surprised By Love Nationally-known keynote speakers Concurrent Children’s Track for reading-aged kids Meals...