Nothing puts Bunyan's classic in its seventeenth-century context more than the Author's Apology. Bunyan puts a long poem before the...

It's an interesting question as to when a modernized version becomes an adaptation? In any case, today I was asked again about my...

(Editions of PP in the US conform to US spelling - so the "u" is missing from how Bunyan spelled "armour." This is actually not so easy...

One way that the New Testament depicts conversion is putting off the old self and putting on Christ. The language speaks to what we call...

People have all sorts of notions when they hear the word 'Puritan'. For some it means a 'kill-joy' or someone who is morally censorious -...

It's probably worth noting in this space that a lot of my research and writing time this season is dedicated to work on a new edition of...

I remember reading that the director of the recent animated movie of The Pilgrim's Progress regretted that, because Christian put on...

Happy New Year! Here are Noelle's final three PP lyrics to Christmas song tunes. I hope they've been enjoyable. All students who produce...

Here are another batch of Noelle's PP seasonal tune lyrics, with an aptly chosen minor key feel to the Battle with Apollyon to "White...

Well, no, not that tune, although I'm sure a PP version could be compiled... In the meantime, here's Noelle's take on the Cross and the...

...we have a take on Christian's, and Christiana and Mercy's visits to the House of the Interpreter, to the tune of Silent Night.

Here is Noelle's third set of PP lyrics, this time to be sung to the tune of O Come, All Ye Faithful - this one has more of a tone of...

Here's the second of Noelle's Pilgrim's Progress lyrics set to popular Christmas song tunes: Enjoy!

My colleague, Ken Berding, is a firm advocate of the benefit of singing in helping students learn and recall their New Testament Greek...

A while back I started scanning/photocopying, printing, and cutting and pasting a compilation of editorial annotations to the text of PP...

I've added a couple of other characters to my study of readers' marginalia. Two more annotated copies of PP have come into my possession,...

This last week was the annual conference of the Evangelical Theological Society, held in Denver, CO. As ever, it was great to travel with...

In class seminar today we discussed Christian and Faithful's meeting with Talkative. We recognized that in our Christian university...

... and John Bunyan, in dreaming persona, asks them if they are merely for talking at the ale-bench, or if their lives conform to...

I'm glad of my Biola office with a desk that can adjust heights - to let me stand or sit as I work. At home the situation is a little...