A Death Worth Hallowing
Spooky Season and the waning of the year is a regularly scheduled encounter with death, and I draw tremendous comfort from it.
Returning to the Upside Down: A CAPC Stranger Things Retrospective
Our favorite and most popular Stranger Things-related posts and features from the last nine years.
Unraveling Joni Mitchell’s “Mystical Thread”
Tracing a renowned songwriter’s lifelong quest for spiritual truth.
Wounds and Woundedness in The Smashing Machine
The film points toward Caravaggio’s The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, where belief is born through touching the wounds of Christ.
Fathers and Brothers, Sisters and MU/TH/UR: A Review of Predator: Badlands
Predator: Badlands is mythic and weirdly intimate: a cosmic family drama wearing the skin of a sci-fi monster movie.
A Thousand Guitars and the Kingdom of God
Bruce Springsteen is the political theologian we need in such a time as this.
The Monad and the Machine: What Godbreakers Gets Right About the End of Man
Godbreakers plays like a fever dream of our technological future, asking what happens when we forget that to be human is to be made of dust?
