Reflections on Tom Waits’ “Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis”
Waits’ inimitable barroom baritone paints a vivid picture of a lonely soul living at the edge of Christmas.
Waits’ inimitable barroom baritone paints a vivid picture of a lonely soul living at the edge of Christmas.
Claude Atcho interviews S.D. Smith, who shares his perspective on Paton’s work having firsthand experience of life in South Africa.
To call Martin Scorcese’s latest a masterpiece is merely to note that it’s yet another amid a career scattered with masterpieces.
Laufey’s album is a call to be once again enchanted by the beauty of love in a disenchanted world.
The search — what is it and why does it matter? Claude and Austin tackle this important theme from Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer.
Brian Duffield’s genre-bending film affords ample opportunity to ask deep questions about suffering, forgiveness, and acceptance.
The open-minded liberal Protestantism of publisher Eugene Exman blinded him to significant aspects of the human experience.
If your family or close-knit community doesn’t have an annual Thanksgiving Day tradition or is looking for one, then we’ve got your back.
Taking the high road is easy if you’re a pharisee. It’s harder if you’re a utilitarian. Jack Ryan is (un)lucky in that he’s both.
The film Air treats the Air Jordan with a reverence befitting its cultural status; holy relics elicit similar feelings, offering a tangible link to transcendence through the imprint of a remarkable individual’s body.
The independent wrestling circuit begins with genuine connection and a familial bond with fans: the spectacle comes secondarily.
C.S. Lewis’s adored classic now shares space with Barbie as part of the subgenre of portal fantasy.
This week’s Fruit of the Spirit is Love with medievalist, Grace Hamman discussing “Revelations of Divine Love” by Julian of Norwich.
If we’re honest, I’m sure some of us have, indeed, lived out our belief in God in some “superstitious” form or manner.
These two Jedi offer a helpful corrective, both to “Chosen One” heroes and to the opposing swing towards darker antiheroes.
Poirot learns the limits of his overreliance on rationality, and is beckoned to the realm of faith and the light of life.
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