Monthly Archives: December 2016

It’s time for Wade and Kevin’s ‘Rogue One’ podcast review along with Ken Loach’s ‘I, Daniel Blake.’

We can work ourselves to the bone trying to make this season meaningful, thereby leaching it of all its meaning.

Although we assume December should be full of all things merry and bright, the grief that stole Christmas Joy for so many can be found throughout the season. Nancy Guthrie joined Erin and Hannah to talk about it.

Instead of getting discouraged about the sorrows, we need to pick a trench, jump in, and do the hard and sometimes heartbreaking work in front of us.

What need within us is served by watching our society crumble beneath our protagonists’ feet, if not one that is cruel, even sadistic, in nature?

Cooked highlights the good in preparing and enjoying food.

If you need a cinematic gut punch, Black Mirror could be helpful.

Write for our magazine! Submit a pitch for a feature article on the theme of “Your Best Year Now.”

The thrill of hope offered in the Advent season is just what we need to recover from this divisive election.

Director Ava DuVernay points out that the dehumanization of blacks existed, not only in slavery but also in the language of abolition.

All this focus on personal greatness has its drawbacks.

Sometimes an artist has to choose between living a principled life or just living at all. The novelist Julian Barnes imagines the high cost of this choice for the composer Shostakovich under Stalin.

Wade and Kevin snap out of their post-Thanksgiving food lethargy to discuss two major films this week: Disney’s ‘Moana’ and Jeff Nichols’ ‘Loving’.