Monthly Archives: May 2017

In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, we see the consequences of denying truth.

The show refuses to follow the “inspirationally disadvantaged” cliché found in lots of fiction that features disabled characters.

Fate/Zero provides us a tragic story of idolatry straight from the playbook of scripture.

Wade and Kevin offer their Alien retrospective as well as a review of the latest movie to feature a spacebound band of doomed souls, Alien: Covenant.

God never intended for us to create artificial barriers between ourselves and art, one of His greatest gifts to us.

David Powlison dispels the myth that there is a “key to sanctification” and then lays the biblical groundwork for spiritual growth.

In this ounce of Persuasion fast chat, Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson consider the typical lack of real life wisdom for college grads that commencement speakers dispense to graduates.

Perhaps the healthiest way to cope at this point is to remember Chris Cornell’s place in our lives.

Although it’s fiction, The Walking Dead reaches into our nonfiction hearts and draws to the surface survivolatry we excuse in ourselves.

We devote huge amounts of time and energy guilting each other over what we eat.

Samurai Jack reminds us of the power of forgiveness and of relinquishing past sins.

The Man Who Was Thursday equips us to endure our “dissolving age” by reminding us that there is a larger plan set in motion ages ago by the author of our existence.

On this week’s episode, author Courtney Reissig joins Hannah Anderson to discuss the plusses and pitfalls of home work and productivity.

In her book When Changing Nothing Changes Everything, Laurie Polich Short gives us insight into living life fully, whatever our circumstances.

Drew and Tyler chat with Jonathan Edwards about his recent article The Tragedy of Family ‘Fences.’

In contemporary U.S. society—as in Twain’s post-Civil War South, as in Le Guin’s 1960s culture war America—our shared humanity is dangerously easy to ignore.