Oct 30, 2020
Mexican Gothic: Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Dark Fairy Tale
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic functions as both a weird Gothic horror and a fairy tale.
Oct 20, 2020
CBS All Access’s Spiritless Twilight Zone
Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone could contend for human worth on the basis of a shared imago Dei, a spiritual aspect that provides an inherent value to each individual, while the reboot seems content to regard men and women materialistically.
Sep 23, 2020
Returning to the Darkness: Following David Lindsay on A Voyage to Arcturus, 100 Years Later
David Lindsay sought after truth, and he believed the way to truth passed through pain, denial, and sacrifice.
Jul 15, 2020
From Boccaccio to Chaucer: Storytelling during and after Plague Time
Why do something so frivolous as telling stories when human lives may be at stake? Shouldn’t we be in the business of… well, surviving?
May 28, 2020
Hippocampus Press, Small Publishers, and the Full Library
Religious readers may find important insights in the dark corners explored by Hippocampus Press and other niche publishers of weird fiction.
Apr 22, 2020
Star Trek: Picard’s Beautiful Failure of Imagination
Star Trek: Picard cannot conceive a vision for the good life without an ending in death, which is a failure of imagination.
Mar 31, 2020
A Tale of Two Burgesses: On Reading Well in The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone points us toward reading not just as a recreational pastime but as a possible site for the cultivation of virtue.
Jan 29, 2020
“You Are a Stranger to History”: Star Trek: Picard Reminds Us to Remember
Star Trek: Picard suggests that understanding history is vital toward moving forward rightly
Dec 16, 2019
Remembering D. C. Fontana, Star Trek’s Woman of Two Worlds
Star Trek writer D. C. Fontana crafted a bridge, from her own liminal experience to the worlds of her audience.
Oct 9, 2019
In Praise of Nog: How the Late Aron Eisenberg Embodied One of Star Trek’s Most Memorable Characters
As Nog on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Aron Eisenberg reminded viewers that strength of character can be found in the unlikeliest of places.
Sep 12, 2019
The Very “Human” Second Season of Star Trek: Discovery
In season two of Star Trek: Discovery, both the virtues and the flaws of classic Trek’s humanism are on display.
May 8, 2019
Avengers: Endgame, Nebula, and the Love that Transforms
In Avengers: Endgame, we see in Nebula one of the most poignant depictions of the transformative power of self-sacrificial love.
Mar 22, 2019
CAPC Jr.: Pop Culture Commentary from the Next Generation
In CAPC Jr., significant children in the lives of our writers pass on their own unique insights into some of their favorite cultural artifacts.
Mar 14, 2019
Listening in the Silence: Algernon Blackwood at 150
For Algernon Blackwood, the natural world is not just natural: it is animated, enchanted, redolent with presences most often detectable only apart from our five senses.
Feb 14, 2019
‘You’re like Me’: Friendship in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse emphasizes C. S. Lewis’s understanding of friendship among people who understand one another.
Sep 27, 2018
Thanos the Maniac
Thanos is a maniac in the sense used by G. K. Chesterton in his classic work Orthodoxy.