Blog | Professor Pilgrim's Progress

3 days ago1 min read

A quiet six months has been anything but....Forthcoming

My break from blogging has not been a break from writing. Unlike blogging, other academic writing takes a lot longer to work through...

Greg Tardy's Pilgrim's Progress Jazz Suite

andydraycott7

May 221 min read

Greg Tardy's Pilgrim's Progress Jazz Suite

There have been multiple musical adaptations of The Pilgrim's Progress for kids, as well as contemporary praise music, folk, soft-rock,...

Integration Seminar Creative Project - William Yujuico's Chemical Analogy

andydraycott7

May 23 min read

Integration Seminar Creative Project - William Yujuico's Chemical Analogy

My Pilgrim's Progress class is a general education Integration in Biola University's Bible and Theology Minor. Biola has some Integration...

Look who's pointing!? Cultural Visual Bias in reading PP

andydraycott7

May 13 min read

Look who's pointing!? Cultural Visual Bias in reading PP

Images do not tell the whole story, but they do visually illustrate parts. I've just finished work on a chapter on the visual art on...

The Tale of the Wandering Epigraph, Part 2 of 2

andydraycott7

Apr 233 min read

The Tale of the Wandering Epigraph, Part 2 of 2

"It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over." As mentioned in the first of these two...

The Tale of the Wandering Epigraph, Part 1 of 2

andydraycott7

Apr 222 min read

The Tale of the Wandering Epigraph, Part 1 of 2

What better way to signal your love of Bunyan (Bunyanphilia) than to adorn your water bottle with one of his beloved quotations from The...

andydraycott7

Apr 81 min read

Moving on from Easter with Bunyan

I was privileged this year to offer two reflections to the Lent Project run by Biola University's Center for Christianity, Culture, and...

andydraycott7

Apr 42 min read

Pilgrim Journey #1 of 10

Curtis Freeman fulfills the promise of his concluding chapter of Pilgrim Letters in this companion volume. It has the same attractive...

More on John Wesley at the Cross in PP: Galatians 2 and 'Faith in' or 'Faith of'?

andydraycott7

Apr 24 min read

More on John Wesley at the Cross in PP: Galatians 2 and 'Faith in' or 'Faith of'?

I noted last week that John Wesley, in his abridgment, changes what Christian says at the cross when his burden falls from his back. To...

Emily Propst Dances The Pilgrim’s Progress

andydraycott7

Mar 301 min read

Emily Propst Dances The Pilgrim’s Progress

An Easter Treat. Ever since singing the chorus ‘Lord of the Dance’ when I was little, I’ve associated Easter joy with dancing, even...

Good Friday at the Place of Deliverance (Part 2 of 2)

andydraycott7

Mar 292 min read

Good Friday at the Place of Deliverance (Part 2 of 2)

What does Christian see when he sees the cross? He later reports that he saw Jesus in his mind's eye, as it were. Most often, when the...

Good Friday at the Place of Deliverance (Part 1 of 2)

andydraycott7

Mar 282 min read

Good Friday at the Place of Deliverance (Part 1 of 2)

Christian is amazed that the mere sight of the cross is sufficient to release him of his burden. This burden, the marker of his...

Judging The Pilgrim's Progress by its Cover (2 of 2)

andydraycott7

Mar 253 min read

Judging The Pilgrim's Progress by its Cover (2 of 2)

In my previous (1 of 2) post, I ended by reading a cover from an abridged version of The Pilgrim's Progress from Abeka Press who serve...

andydraycott7

Mar 201 min read

On-going work: At the Cross

I'm in a fruitful patch of work at the Cross of PP Part I. Last summer I had an article published by the Journal of the Evangelical...

andydraycott7

Mar 182 min read

PP's First Visual Labelling Mistake

Many commentators ascribe Robert White's famous frontispiece image of the dreaming Bunyan to the third edition of 1679. No earlier...

Catechesis by the letter #9 (Conclusion)

andydraycott7

Mar 162 min read

Catechesis by the letter #9 (Conclusion)

Curtis Freeman ends his collection of letters from Pilgrim's Progress's Interpreter to the newly baptized believer with a Conclusion...

Judging The Pilgrim's Progress by its cover (1 of 2)

andydraycott7

Mar 153 min read

Judging The Pilgrim's Progress by its cover (1 of 2)

We have the warning that you should not judge a book by its cover precisely because we do. In fact, cover exist, at least latterly, to...

What's your favorite Pilgrim's Progress adaptation?

andydraycott7

Mar 141 min read

What's your favorite Pilgrim's Progress adaptation?

This last week my class has been exploring some adaptation theory and theologizing to frame their own exploration of Pilgrim's Progress...

andydraycott7

Mar 133 min read

Catechesis by the letter #8

(It's been a long time since I intended to finish blogging thoughts in response to each chapter of Curtis Freeman's excellent book,...

Spiral Map Major Mistake at the River of Death

andydraycott7

Mar 132 min read

Spiral Map Major Mistake at the River of Death

You may be familiar with the nineteenth century spiral map of Christian's journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. In...