Lecrae Reminds Christians That They Have an ‘Answer for the Hopelessness and Worthlessness’ in the World, Encourages Them to ‘Draw Near to God’, and Emphasizes the Importance of Using Art to Lament

Lecrae Reminds Christians That They Have an ‘Answer for the Hopelessness and Worthlessness’ in the World, Encourages Them to ‘Draw Near to God’, and Emphasizes the Importance of Using Art to Lament

Christian hip-hop artist Lecrae encouraged Christians to “draw near to God” in the midst of the distress and anxiety of the COVID-19 pandemic, offering the reminder that believers have an “answer for the hopelessness and the worthlessness” the world is currently experiencing.

Curator of a New York Exhibition on J.R.R. Tolkien Says ‘The Silmarillion Was Always his Heart’ and Reveals the Author Considered the The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit as Side Projects to his Greatest Work

In a 1937 letter to an Oxford colleague, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien confessed that he didn’t much care for The Hobbit, one of his already popular works that was about to go into its second printing.