I’m Bidding Farewell to Nashville and Its Immoral Storytelling

The creative minds behind Nashville are squandering their talents by taking the easy way out instead of offering something true, good, and beautiful.

Persuasion 105: Sandwich Snobbery & Social Exclusion

Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson cover everything from faux pas to class snobbery to the structures that keep us in our place.

Insecure and the Need for More Authentic Friendships

We need friends who stretch us, who are willing to help us face hard truths about ourselves, and who love us enough to tell us when we are wrong.

The Saint Who Rolled with the Pigs

Since I’m not a historian, I’m going to tell you about the weird, possibly legendary, and super awkward stuff this guy did.

Seeing and Believing 115: Jon Watts’ Spider-Man: Homecoming and Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper

Seeing & Believing pairs the sixth Spidey movie in fifteen years with arthouse film, Personal Shopper in this week’s episode.

Persuasion 104: Is the Bible Good for Women? with Wendy Alsup

Wendy Alsup joins Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson to talk about her book, ‘Is the Bible Good for Women?” and the Jesus centered approach to the issue.

Larry Wilmore’s Black on the Air Upends Expectations

In an unexpected place, Wilmore provides a good model of apologetic dialogue.

Twenty Years Later, Radiohead’s OK Computer Still Sounds Brand New

Part of OK Computer’s genius is that it captures the ways in which our technology detaches us.

RWBY and Leading with Contagious Joy

We want to build a sisterhood like RWBY, one that spreads seeds of its joyful community elsewhere or looks for it in others.

Don’t Embrace the Power of the Dark Side

God’s word, and our own stories, teach us to overcome evil with good. Why don’t we listen?

Seeing and Believing Episode 114: Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled and Ana Lily Amirpour’s The Bad Batch

Wade and Kevin celebrate the 4th of July week with movies involving the Civil War and post-apocalyptical cannibalism with Beguiled and The Bad Batch.

Attack on Titan, Overcoming Evil with Mercy

Season 2 of Attack on Titan is filled with actions that are incredibly hard to empathize with or understand.

Politics as Entertainment, Then and Now

There’s a long history that’s given us the expectation that our politics should entertain us.

Persuasion 103: Doing the Safety Dance

In this episode of Persuasion, Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson attempt to sort out our society’s near obsession with being safe.

It Comes at Night Reminds Us That the Political Is Always Personal

It Comes at Night implores us to have the courage to give each other the benefit of the doubt.

A Good Life, a Good Death, and Good-Bye

The longer we live, the more losses we accrue. It doesn’t get easier. There is no ideal life.