In the end, the problem with reality shows doesn’t come with measuring the moral values of the Kardashians, or the Robertsons, the Duggars or the idol in American Idol. The problem is the rest of us.
Daredevil is a Good Samaritan: he stops at the side of the road, helps a stranger, and makes community out of brokenness.
To say something is a “downer” is to say we wish it was otherwise; but how am I able to imagine a world without evil when a world full of evil is all I’ve ever known?
When I hear Garrels sing so fervently, he lifts up timeworn images and reinvests them with passion. As far as that goes, it’s a noble endeavor. But, speaking for myself, I want to hear something more than passion—I want to hear personality. I want to hear some threads in the tapestry that come from the loom of his own experience and imagination.
The Christian hip-hop artist and the Christian politician both testify to God’s grace in Christ.
Sufjan Stevens’s obscure reference to Manelich is a key element in understanding how he sees his relationship with his mother Carrie.
It doesn’t have to make sense, it doesn’t have to be not-embarrassingly-neocolonial, and it doesn’t even have to be especially marketable; you just put the word “Princess” in the title, and the marketing takes care of itself!
Is life just a revolving door? Mad Men suggests it is, and it isn’t.
