What is interesting is how swiftly fanboys turned from demanding everything darker and grittier in the not-terribly-distant days of ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Watchmen’ and even ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ to ridiculing dark’n’gritty right out of the gate.
I believe that popular culture will last into eternal life — yes, including literal discs and books and songs.
Exposing all the foolishness of the Bible. You’ll thank me later.
In “Lord of the Starfields,” Bruce Cockburn lifts up a prayer that we might find the faith and hope to live redemptively in a world that brings so many down.
Our hearts and our bodies groan for something to believe in, for someone to follow, for somewhere to belong.
In the end, the story transcends the sitcom scenarios and builds into a plot any contemporary reader or viewer can get behind.
When loss finds us, we ache.
Big, elaborate marriage proposals attempt to make a spectacle of something that is, in reality, a very ordinary thing.
Denying the appeal of the material world will not in and of itself bring a sense of balance.
