The Bat in Daylight: Matt Fraction, Batman, and a New Day in Gotham City
You don’t wait for institutions to become trustworthy, or people to become good, or the city to become clean before deciding whether it’s worth fighting for.
The Last Unapologetic Hero: Masculinity and Heroism in 007 First Light
The game assumes the audience already understands the dangers built into the Bond archetype, and then it moves beyond them.
Why Should Christians Care About Quantum Physics?
The appeal of the multiverse metaphor in everyday conversation is that it functions as an anaesthetic for regret and makes decisions feel less weighty.
Where the Frontier Meets the Galaxy: The Western Genre and the Moral Imagination of Star Wars
Both the Western and Star Wars imagine a world where character must be forged and not assumed, where goodness is real, but never cheap.
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.
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?
God, Us, and Them – Part III: Theological Reflections on Extraterrestrial Life
If someone—or something—is out there, the gospel isn’t fragile, and our theology is big enough to handle it.
God, Us, and Them – Part II: Ufology 101
Our aim is not to baptize the mythology of aliens, but to ask how Christian theology might responsibly interpret the discovery of non-human life.
God, Us, and Them – Part I: A Case for Exotheology
If the question ever changes from if we are alone to since we are not, the Church should be ready to say something worth hearing.
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.
Metamodernism: Understanding the Spirit of the Age
The metamodern mood is hopeful but cautious, sincere but self-aware, believing while doubting all the same.
Riding the Rap with Star Wars Outlaws
A flawed mother and daughter together illustrate that grace doesn’t erase the rap sheet—it reframes it.
Holy Night or Pagan Rite? How Christianity Transformed Yuletide
What transforms Christmas into something sacred is not its historical origin, but the heart of the believer.
70 Years with Big G — Part Four: Apocalypse and Hope in the Reiwa Era
Godzilla is a towering figure in modern mythopoeia, embodying the apocalypse of divine retribution and judgment.
70 Years with Big G — Part Three: Renewal and Reflection in the Millennium Era
The Millennium Era set a precedent for risk-taking through its innovative anthology format in an effort to reestablish Godzilla’s identity.
70 Years with Big G — Part Two: Judgment and Consequences in the Heisei Era
The Heisei Era films reflect a society aware of the complex relationship between human innovation and its unintended side effects.
