Search

6 days ago
Devotional Four: Patience
Relationships require patience: parent to child, husband to wife, and friend to friend. One of the most beautiful elements of ...

Feb 14
Devotional Three: Peace
A curmudgeon. A miser. A Scrooge. These words describe Mr. Horace Vandergelder throughout much of the musical...

Feb 7
Devotional Two: Joy
Hello, Dolly! is one of the most joyful musicals to cross the Broadway stage. There is a strong desire by the characters to live life to...

Jan 31
Devotional One: Love
Love is a perennial theme of Broadway musicals. The fathers of the Broadway musical, Rodgers and Hammerstein, have many masterpieces...

Nov 1, 2024
Devotional Eight: Conclusion
North Raleigh Christian Academy holds to the core value that all truth is God’s truth. This includes the truth found in...

Oct 17, 2024
Devotional Seven: The Witch
Another major theme of Into the Woods is intergenerational trauma. The sins of the parents do indeed visit the lives of their children...

Oct 11, 2024
Devotional Six: Cinderella
Audiences often equate Cinderella with the virtues of goodness and kindness. She serves her stepmother and stepsisters without complaint, an

Oct 4, 2024
Devotional Five: The Baker’s Wife
The Baker’s Wife is one of the most complicated (and compelling) characters in the musical theatre canon. One reason for this is that she...

Sep 27, 2024
Devotional Four: Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood is naïve about the world around her. She has instructions from her mother to journey directly to her grandmother’s...

Sep 19, 2024
Devotional Three: Jack
Into the Woods doesn’t give much detail about why Jack’s father left the family, but the consequences are all too present. Poverty, ...


Sep 13, 2024
Devotional Two: The Baker
Even given the magical world he inhabits, The Baker is much afraid of things both real and imagined. He allows circumstances to wreak...


Sep 6, 2024
Devotional One: Introduction
C.S. Lewis, the creative storyteller behind the beloved Chronicles of Narnia, once said, “Someday you will be old enough to start reading...