“Do you think in America they know what’s going on here?” Musa Hadid, the mayor of Ramallah, turns […]
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The legend of la llorona, or the “weeping woman” has a long history in Mexico, as well as […]
As often as human beings have experienced consequences of their choices that they never intended—often enough to call […]
Enough Redbox points for a free movie, expiring TODAY. No movies I have a strong desire to see. […]
“Now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true/But you and I know what this world can do/So […]
I am a fan of fathers and husbands who fight for their families, especially when I am not […]
[MULTIPLE SPOILERS] Mare of Easttown (2021; HBO) is a missing-persons/murder mystery that expands until the mystery becomes secondary […]
…the devil builds a chapel, or so goes the saying of Luther (Table Talk LXVII). In other words, […]
You know how people’s favorite albums depend in large part on when the person encountered the band or […]
I recently learned that something called the “Lutheran Society” once commissioned an anti-ageism film from the horror director […]
When God is dead, there is not nothing. Worship abhors a vacuum. So when God or gods cease […]
There’s something about revenge. Death Wish, Taken, In the Bedroom,and the John Wick franchise all work from a […]
It’s an absurd premise: a tennis coach kidnaps someone to train with his player in preparation for the […]
A couple years ago, I started offering to my congregation Matins on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of Holy […]
Saint Maud (2021; available on EPIX via Prime Video Channels) has been marketed like a horror movie, along […]
This show has been on my radar for a while, but it took me a while to get […]
Part III of The Godfather trilogy is routinely and self-evidently reviled. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a score […]
In the first chapter of his book Film as Religion: Myths, Morals, and Rituals, John C. Lyden describes […]
Whatever might occupy your thoughts when you first wake up, whatever might keep you from falling asleep, there […]
Maybe it begins as an attempt by a doctor to expunge her guilt over not allowing a girl […]