“Death is almost certain.” “Death is not always a great evil, Monsieur Champlain.” This exchange at the beginning […]
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The 23rd Annual Newport Beach Film Festival concluded last week. It was, as always, a great week of […]
To continue a thought from the last thing I wrote, horror movies can, on the one hand, serve […]
I am always interested to see how horror movies treat exorcism, demons, priests (usually), and the threat of […]
I have been reading some more Stanley Hauerwas (this book), which is a dangerous thing to do if […]
Euthanasia is a euphemism. They share a Greek root for the word “good,” “eu-.” “Eu-phemism” means, literally, to […]
We like to watch train wrecks, even if we watch them through our splayed fingers. In Not Okay […]
Lutherans have always had a distrust of mysticism, or at least of the particular form of mysticism we’ve […]
I have been thinking, on and off, over the last year about the vanity and futility of life […]
There are very few popular authors that I will always read. Michael Connelly is one of them. Not […]