Monthly Archives: May 2020

Religious readers may find important insights in the dark corners explored by Hippocampus Press and other niche publishers of weird fiction.

It’s time for a Trip to Greece with Michael Winterbottom while eating fancy followed by Andrew Ahn’s darling film Driveways staring the late Brian Dennehy.

The life script we would produce with time and a writer’s room would leave out moments that produce hearty laughs, heaving sobs, and the sensations that lie between.

There is little joy in many of our arguments, and yet, joy is the most compelling tool we have when we need to persuade.

Christians can ignore hyper-real pornography to our peril, respond to it unwisely, or work to understand and countervail its sexual destruction that already is at work in our society and our churches.

We live in a world where superstars can be superstars filled with awe-inspiring athleticism and uncomfortable flaws, and antagonists can be understood without compromising our understanding of ethics. 

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn teaches readers how to argue for hope’s existence.

It’s not really a mystery why people yearn to believe bizarre and dramatic tales of evil: the actual truth about evil is that it’s mundane, pervasive, and unfixable, at least to us mortals.

What you will find in Never Have I Ever is a surprisingly profound look at grief through the eyes of teenagers.

Amid all of Jordan’s anguish and aspersions, episodes 7 and 8 of The Last Dance helps us to better understand his drive for excellence.

Wade and Kevin get back to basics with a review of Josh Trank’s unconventional small-budget film examining the last year of the infamous gangster’s life.

The addiction that drives every member of the Umbrella Academy is the same which drives all of us—the desire to love and be loved

The Final Fantasy VII Remake does what many retellings fail to do; it reconciles the past with the future.

How do we live well in this ongoing (seemingly never-ending) viral age? Erin and Hannah discuss our new normal in the Growing Viral finale.

In a pandemic, how can we foster the community so crucial for education?

Wade and Kevin wrap up their auteur series with a look at the work of America’s foremost purveyor of immaculately framed family dysfunction: Wes Anderson.