Annihilation Reveals the Dark Side of Vulnerability
Annihilation teaches us, among other things, that sometimes our confession is more cathartic than redemptive.
Annihilation teaches us, among other things, that sometimes our confession is more cathartic than redemptive.
It takes artists like McMillan to push us off our comfortable thrones.
The spicy sweetness of hot cross buns holds the juxtaposition of this odd day—while we mourn the darkness, we know the light is on its way.
It’s nerd heaven on this week’s episode of the show! First up is Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s wildly popular nerd-service novel, Ready Player One. Then the guys turn their attention to another nerd-adjacent blockbuster: Pacific Rim: Uprising.
When we talk about toxic masculinity, this is what we mean: the mindset calling men to the worldly honor of physical dominance, at the expense of humility and grace.
We find echoes of Eden in so many cultural artifacts, even video games.
In Ready Player One, humanity longs for the inner self to be unshackled from captivity to a meaningless and confining real world.
We don’t just need this world to be improved; we need to see it broken and remade.
Why do we love stories of overcoming? Find out in this issue of Christ and Pop Culture Magazine.
Jessica Jones is a distinctly feminine hero story in a male world delivered to us in the era of #metoo.
Fifty years after its initial publication, The Last Unicorn still retains its power.
The Crown shows us that we cannot live on duty alone.
So, if Easter did coincide with an Anglo-Saxon feast to a goddess no one’s ever heard of—well, I mean, coincidences happen.
Our congregations would benefit from future pastors who’ve been influenced by women like Rachael Denhollander.
Although ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ makes no mention of God, it demonstrates how pure intellect devoid of faith is also devoid of love and of hope.
Instead of dealing with tragedies like Parkland, Christians quickly spiritualize the issue in an effort to abstract the material reality away.
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