Watching The Task (2017; streaming on Criterion Channel, or you can watch it here) is like being thrown […]
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Advent is often associated with hope. That seems to be a common answer to why many churches now […]
I have somehow avoided, for all of my post-18-year-old years, having to serve on a jury. The only […]
“Death is almost certain.” “Death is not always a great evil, Monsieur Champlain.” This exchange at the beginning […]
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 […]
I am not a fan of “Christian” movies. It is almost always bad (in multiple senses) when the […]
Modern culture, at least in the West, is enamored of the idea of self-creation. We are rootless, independent, […]
You cannot serve two masters. Servants (Služobníci; 2020; streaming on Kanopy or for rent on Prime Video) highlights […]
All it takes is one sentence, one insult, and (as St. James puts it) see how great a […]
“24 hours of doubt, one minute of hope.” That’s Sister Maria’s (Agata Buzek) answer to Mathilde (Lou de […]
Before 90 Minutes in Heaven, Heaven is For Real, and The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven (since […]
Prayer is a human phenomenon that is studied, mocked, analyzed, taught, and studied by believers and unbelievers alike. […]