To Change the World: There Are Better Reasons for Engaging Culture
Our pipe dreams of world-changing may be misguided.
“A Tough Season for Believers”; A Good Season for Books
Mockingjay’s Hermeneutics of Suffering
Does the final book make or break the Hunger Games series?
Catching Fire: Team Love Triangle or Team Dystopian Grit?
The second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy deals with romance as a possible symbolic hope.
‘The Hunger Games’: What Counts as Ethical in a World Where Kids Kill Each Other on TV?
A young adult phenomenon addresses some incredibly relevant moral dilemmas.
John Mark Reynolds on the “Yoga Wars”
RetroPost: ‘Son of Rambow’ and the Ultimate Summer Fantasy
Now available on Netflix Instant Watch, Son of Rambow is a different kind of action-influenced film.
Boys, Reading, and Video Games
Winter’s Bone: A Sundance Winner That Doesn’t Sell out the South
Finally a film that acknowledges the complexity of southern people without passing judgment.
A Parable of the Two Philip Pullmans (Philips Pullman?)
Eat, Pray, Love My Middle-Aged Neighbor
What lessons can a morally questionable film offer the church?
The Bechdel Test
The Last Airbender Is . . . Not a Good Movie
Was anyone else aware of this?
Novel Theophany: Megan Whalen Turner’s Fictional Pantheon
What’s a reader to do when we’re frustrated with the author? Trust them.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Trailer
The Swell Season, David Crowder & the Negative Power of a Song’s Backstory
Sometimes lyrical ignorance is bliss.
