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Allusions, Analogies, and Illustrations Index


# | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | V | W


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1984 (George Orwell), 108

A

Adam, skin, 184

Aesop’s fables, 212

“After All He’s Done For Me,” 469

Aladdin, 383, 565

alchemy, 611

Alexander VI, Pope, 285

Alice in Wonderland, 22

all roads lead to Rome, 170

American government, 116

An Inspector Calls (J. B. Priestley), 618

Anabaptists, 245

Andvaranaut, 362

Animal Farm (George Orwell), 359

anorexia, 270

Antiochus Epiphanes, 301

apartheid, 300

aqueducts, 409

Arthur, 47, 303

Ashurnasirpal, 301

atomic bomb on Hiroshima, 334

Aurora Leigh, 104

Ayyab and Rab-ilu, 407

Aztecs, 299

B

Berlin Wall, 22

Bernall, Cassie, 240

Bicentennial Man, 218

Big Chill, 250

Blavatsky, Helena, 221

Body Life (Ray Stedman), 410

Botanical Gardens, 166

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), 108

Brichto, Chanan, 440

British Monarchy, 384

Brother Lawrence, 195

C

Caligula, 301

“Can’t Buy Me Love” (Beatles), 637

CAPS Program, 247

car accident, 237

Carey, William, 485

Carpenter, Karen, 270

Carter, Rubin “Hurricane,” 356

Cat’s in the Cradle (Sandra Chapin), 596

charitable deductions, 639

Children’s Crusade, 538

Chinesesaint, 286

Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens), 361, 614

church discipline, 197

Church of England, 232

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 245

Cinderella, 338

Clinton, William, 286

Colson, Chuck, 337

Columbine, 240

communism, 360

Communist China church, 287

commuting, 517

computer, 97, 363

computer chess, 697

concentric circles worldview diagram, 135

Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas), 361

coup, 76

Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky), 255

D

Dahmer, Jeffry, 254

daylight savings time, 22

Dead Poets’ Society, 434

Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller) 380

democracy, 286

DeShazer, Jacob, 614

devil in the details, 516

divorce, 231

DNA, 289

dog and catsup, 212

dog walk, 439

dunking stools, 537

E

Eareckson, Joni, 471

Edwards, Jonathan, 487

Elliot, Elisabeth, 437

Elliot, Jim, 406

endangered fly, 142

Ender’s Shadow (Orson Scott Card), 697

Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT), 249

Ever After, 338

F

Federal Reserve, 334

Fiddler on the Roof, 145, 693

Fisherman and His Wife, 575–76

flag, 231

fountain of youth, 303

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), 117, 192

Frelinghuysen, Theodore, 487

Friedan, Betty, 249

Fuchida, Mitsua, 614

G

Galileo, 44

gambling bust, 256

get-rich-quick scheme, 267

God’s Smuggler (Brother Andrew), 598

Going the Moose Way Home (James Latimer), 470

golf, 567

Graham, Franklin, 564

Grand Canyon, 232

Great Awakening, 486

Grisham, Joy, and C. S. Lewis, 619

gulf stream, 700

H

Halloween, 22

Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad), 255

Hebrew students, 640

Hegstrom, Paul, 566

Henry VIII, 285

Hitler, Adolf, 285, 301

Hobbit (J. R. Tolkein), 362

holidays, 159

Holocaust, 300

holy grail, 303

“Hound of Heaven” (Francis Thompson), 562

Humpty-Dumpty, 22

Hussein, Saddam, 299

I

Idi-Amin, 301

If Heaven Never Were Promised (Andrae Crouch), 519

if I were God, 488

“Imagine” (John Lennon), 519

in a minute, 81

In His Steps (Charles Sheldon), 195

“In the Garden,” 223

Incas, 299

India Rural Evangelical Fellowship, 468

indulgences, 637

Irish immigrants, 687

Iron Curtain, 22

Ivan the Terrible, 301

J

J. B. (A. MacLeish), 257

Jesus film, 248

Joan of Arc, 539

Job, 520

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat (Andrew Lloyd Weber), 662

K

Kennedy, John F., 286

Kent State, 21

Kevorkian, Jack, 248

kibbutz, 694

Kosovo, 299

L

La Lupa (Giovanni Verga), 363

Last Battle (C.S. Lewis), 469

Les Miserables (Victor Hugo), 255, 272

Liddell, Eric, 435

Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis), 362

Little Prince, 438

Locke, John, 217

Lord of the Flies (William Golding), 254

Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkein), 362

lordship salvation, 469

Loren, Sophia, 396

lottery commercial, 253

Louis XVI, 301

Luther, Martin, 485

M

MacBeth (Shakespeare), 255

Major Barbara (George Bernard Shaw), 258

Malagan and the Lady of Rascas (Michael de Larrabeiti), 596

Mandela, Nelson, 701

Mao, 289, 301

marry a millionaire, 638

Matrix, 268

Menendez brothers, 254

Miller, Calvin, 377

Milosevic, Slobodan, 299

Mingdao, Wang, 288

missionaries’ cultural adaptation, 23

model train, 470

“Modern Defense of the Faith,” 245–46

monorail, 517

Moody, D. L., 195, 486

Moral Majority, 246

mother of all wars, 244

Mother Teresa, 485

N

Narnia, 220

Nero, 301

Newton, John, 616

Ninety-Five Theses, 637

Nixon, Richard, 286

Noah’s Ark TV miniseries, 333

Noriega, 301

Norse myth, 362

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” (Robert Frost), 233

O

Odyssey (Homer), 397

Othello (William Shakespeare), 565

outcomes, 138

P

partial birth abortion, 240

Patch Adams, 56, 487

Peck, Gregory, 396

Picasso, 88

Pinocchio, 565

play, 98

Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver), 405

Pol Pot, 301

Ponce de Leon, 303

power of nothing, 434

proposal, 157

Protestant Reformation, 637

R

Rasputin, 301

Ray, James Earl, 356

Reed, William, 433

rich young ruler, 406, 517

Richelieu, 285

Ring, 362

Rivers, Eugene, 247

Robinson Crusoe (Daniel DeFoe), 338, 562

roller coasters, 517

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Thomas Stoppard), 105

S

Saint, Rachel, 437

Sargasso Sea, 700

Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne), 255

Schindler, Oscar, 638

Schindler’s List, 638

shell gift, 700

Shepard, Sam, 356

Simpson, O. J., 356

sky is blue

Smith, Susan, 254

software, 55

Sonnenberg, Joel, 697

spankings, 335

Stalin, Josef, 301

Stephen of Cloyes, 538

stock market, 334, 520

Stoddard, Solomon, 487

stories, 271

student house-sitter, 141

Sung, John, 699

swimming lessons, 726

symphony orchestra, 102

T

Taboo, 21

Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights, 565

teacher, 726

television, 102

Telltale Heart (Edgar Allen Poe), 255

Tempest (William Shakespeare), 520–21

ten Boom, Corrie, 195

Tennant, Gilbert, 487

Testament (John Grisham), 405

Three Little Pigs, 211

Till We Have Faces (C. S. Lewis), 620

Time Wars (Jeremy Rifkin), 437 Truman, Harry, 334

Truman Show, 217–18

Tudor, Mary, 301

Twins (Jeanne Steig), 551

V

Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C. S. Lewis), 91

W

Walesa, Lech, 701

where did I come from? 92

White House, 79

Whitefield, George, 487

Willis, Duane, 246

Wise Woman or the Lost Princess (George MacDonald), 613

World Relief, 248

WWJD, 195