Monthly Archives: October 2018

Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson continue their Talking about Talk series discussing the pros and cons of technical speech in our conversational bubbles.

D. L. Mayfield recaps the latest episode of The Good Place, “The Ballad of Donkey Doug.”

Get into the Halloween spirit with a review of David Gordon Green’s sequel/reboot of John Carpenter’s classic Halloween and foreign film, Burning.

Godless treats the subject of God’s absence not in propositional statements, but rather the embodied, existential answer of lives well-lived.

What is the corrosive, and addictive, nature of power? And how does one learn to wield it well?

D. L. Mayfield recaps and muses on the lastest episode of The Good Place, “Jeremy Bearimy.”

Wade and Kevin discuss First Man, by director Damien Chazelle and then The Old Man and the Gun, which may be Robert Redford’s last role as an actor.

Movies like 9 to 5 belie Justice Kavanaugh’s notion that men of the ’80s had no choice but to conform to the patterns of the era’s most boorish comedies.

If we want to truly love God and love others, the Ten Commandments are good first words for guiding us into a life that does just that.

Erin and Hannah invite Ben Fort to the conversation to discuss the important and needful role of humor in our conversations.

D. L. Mayfield recaps the latest episode of The Good Place, “The Snowplow”.

Wade and Kevin review Bradley Cooper’s Lady Gaga-starring remake of A Star Is Born followed by Kevin’s preview of the Chicago International Film Festival.

I did not choose to become a parent so much as I was made a parent by forces larger and greater than I could ever fathom or control.

God Friended Me may cause involuntary facepalms, but if you can watch through your fingers, you’ll see relationships that reflect the true, the beautiful, and yes, even the divine.

What is it about small talk that makes us so uncomfortable? Is small talk even necessary? Erin and Hannah continue their “Talking about Talk” series in this week’s episode.

My immediate thought after watching “The Brainy Bunch” is that The Good Place is starting to feel a little too normal.