The Conference on Christianity & Literature

Welcome to CCL

The Conference on Christianity and Literature is an interdisciplinary society dedicated to exploring the relationships between Christianity and literature. Organized formally in 1956, CCL is dedicated to both scholarly excellence and collegial exchange and includes hundreds of members from a variety of academic institutions and religious traditions from the United States, Canada, and more than a dozen other countries. 

The Conference publishes a journal, Christianity and Literature, which appears quarterly. Each issue includes scholarly articles, book reviews, news items, and poetry.

CCL also has begun publishing a monograph series with Baylor University Press called Studies in Christianity and Literature. This series will publish peer-reviewed, scholarly manuscripts that explore the complex relationship between Christianity and literature and enhance the larger academic conversation about the role of religion in cultural life. The books to appear in the series will be sensitive to historical contexts, alert to theoretical implications, and informed by theological concerns. For more information, see http://www.baylor.edu/baylorpress/splash.php. Inquiries should be directed to scl@baylor.edu.

CCL is allied with the Modern Language Association and sponsors sessions each year at the annual MLA Convention. In addition, CCL is divided into seven regional organizations that host regular sessions on a wide variety of authors and themes.

Each year the CCL awards citations for lifetime achievement, book of the year, and best article of the year in Christianity and LIterature. The society also sponsors a student writing contest of essays, poems, and stories that address matters of Christian thought, experience, and practice.

Membership in CCL includes a subscription to the journal and the opportunity to participate in activities sponsored by the conference as a whole as well as all regional organizations.

 

 

 

Questions to Tammy Ditmore (tammy.ditmore@pepperdine.edu)

 

In the Latest Issue of Christianity & Literature:

What is
Given

Julie L. Moore

As though Moses himself
is standing high
upon this
Rocky Mountain cliff
poised to proclaim
once again God's law,
cars and SUVs pull over,
line up along both sides
of the national park's
concrete curve, cameras
angling, people pointing,
awestruck by a
simple white goat,
her beard and horns
marking her, unmoved
by all the commotion
hundreds of feet below.

She's just standing
where she's safe,
where her kid,
half-hidden by her side,
entices the crowd
that hungers for more
but must be satisfied,
always,
with what is given.

Spring 2008