Monthly Archives: September 2014

“What we’re trying to push with this movie is that as Christians, you cannot approach making movies with an agenda in mind.”

This editorial kicks off a month-long membership drive.

Am I ashamed of what my white ancestors have done to our black neighbors? Do I take pride in exceeding my white friends’ capacity to admire and understand others? Probably so.

In ‘Anomaly,’ Lecrae’s messages are holistic, insightful, interconnected, and true. His presentation is clean, mostly safe, occasionally dated, and a little too predictable.

Does obstructing a premature thought of sex require us to forego an unsullied idea of hugs?

‘S.’ can help remind us of the need to soldier forth and forge relationships, across space, across time, across texts.

Behind each of series eight’s first three episodes seems to lie probing questions about not only the very identity of the Doctor himself but the whole concept of Doctor Who.

The fact that we can identify a gap at all—and our instinct to fill it—is evidence that we live in an organized universe that we’re designed to understand.

Calvary begins with a quote from St. Augustine. Small white letters fade onto a black screen, light surrounded by immersible darkness. The epitaph reads, “Do not despair; one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned.”

When I found out that Aaron Belz was going to let us include his collection Plausible Worlds in our member’s bundle, the first thing I thought was “That fellow is wise enough to play the fool,” and the second thing was, “I am basically sure that that is from Shakespeare.”

“We define ourselves and our cultures by what we choose to remember”

If evangelicals want to be seen as friends to the sinner, or channels of grace in our sexually insane age, we can’t afford to be this careless.