Between The Purple Passages


by Ashley Zimunya


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  • Prose and Poetry
  • The Stage and Beyond
  • Faith and Culture
  • Book ReviewsReviews
  • Past Essays
  • Art, Literature, and Christian Anti-Intellectualism

    Outside of the snobbery of what constitutes a ‘real’ academic discipline, some Christians are skeptical about the arts (the literary and performing arts in particular) believing them to be secularised spaces that represent only the proliferation of anti-biblical worldviews. They therefore scoff at the futility of mind of those who… Continue reading

    Faith and Culture
    Arts, Christianity, Literature

About

If your hobbies also include reading, thinking excessively about everything you read, and learning other people’s thoughts on the things they’ve read recently or a long time ago, you’re very welcome here!

This is where you can find my observations on various texts (a text here being anything that can be ‘read’ and thus including film, theatre, or Taylor Swift lyrics, for example) and what I think can be found between their “purple passages”.

Recent Posts

  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Drama
  • My 2025 in Books*
  • The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction
  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Prose Fiction
  • Review: You Are Here by David Nicholls (Sceptre, 2025)

Recent Posts

  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Drama
  • My 2025 in Books*
  • The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction

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