Photograph: Hobbit home from the Hobbiton set in New Zealand, used for the cinematic versions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Photo credit: Yoshimi Nagasawa.

Introduction

In this section of our website, we engage with artists of all types, especially storytellers. You can also enjoy these videos on our YouTube channel’s Arts and Theology playlist!

This is our 11 part video series exploring Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, with references to The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and other books in the Legendarium.

This 5 part video series looks at Christian faith and leadership in the golden thread of non-violent resistance movements during the 20th century, including the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. led by the Black Church.

This three part video series explores the two Wicked movies (2024, 2025).

The Theology of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia

Stay tuned! A preliminary:

David Bates, Half Pint with Mako Nagasawa: Atonement and the Stone Table. Pints with Jack, May 13, 2023. A 35 minute video where Mako was a guest with David Bates. David and Mako focused especially on the death of Aslan the Lion in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. But we also engaged with The Magician’s Nephew and The Great Divorce. Mako suggested that Aslan’s death represented a medical substitutionary atonement. It was a short summary of his longer paper, C.S. Lewis’ Theology of Atonement.