On Long-Suffering Odysseus: Why Christians Should Read Classics Written Before Jesus

Despite its ancient context and mythological genre, The Odyssey points us to truths that we can readily embrace as Christian readers.

Games, Souls, and the Problem of Arbitrary Social Relations in The Snow Girl’s Second Season

Our worth is defined qualitatively through our Maker, and we should treat others with this understanding in mind.

Your Friends & Neighbors: A Case Study in Disillusionment

The show’s message is as old as humanity: the life we build is often not the life we want.

How Brian Wilson Broke This Metalhead’s Heart

Brian Wilson’s music unveiled the wonders of this world that remain hidden to most of us mortals.

Finding God in Our Art: A Review of Carey Wallace’s The Discipline of Inspiration

Wallace presents various insights scattered like seeds throughout the book, though perhaps not as many sustained analyses as one might hope.

Nick Cave’s Wild God and the Cost of Capturing Goodness in Art

Works of art that aim to capture the good can result in spiritual transformation, enlarging our appetite for truth, goodness, and beauty.

The Sad Fate of Mon Mothma’s Husband Is One of Andor’s Most Striking Lessons

Would we really be so quick to throw away our status and privilege for a life of hardship, struggle, and near-certain death?

The Impossible Man: Ethan Hunt in the Age of AI

What began in 1966 as a sleek spy procedural has become a modern myth about the sacredness of agency in an age increasingly hostile to it.

Let’s Talk About The Da Vinci Code Movies (and How God Uses Us Despite Ourselves)

These three movies are underrated, unappreciated, and mired in theological debate. But such disputes seem to miss the point.