Articles by Geoffrey Reiter

David Lindsay sought after truth, and he believed the way to truth passed through pain, denial, and sacrifice.

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?

Religious readers may find important insights in the dark corners explored by Hippocampus Press and other niche publishers of weird fiction.

Star Trek: Picard cannot conceive a vision for the good life without an ending in death, which is a failure of imagination.

The Twilight Zone points us toward reading not just as a recreational pastime but as a possible site for the cultivation of virtue.

Star Trek: Picard suggests that understanding history is vital toward moving forward rightly

Star Trek writer D. C. Fontana crafted a bridge, from her own liminal experience to the worlds of her audience.

As Nog on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Aron Eisenberg reminded viewers that strength of character can be found in the unlikeliest of places.

In season two of Star Trek: Discovery, both the virtues and the flaws of classic Trek’s humanism are on display.

In Avengers: Endgame, we see in Nebula one of the most poignant depictions of the transformative power of self-sacrificial love.

In CAPC Jr., significant children in the lives of our writers pass on their own unique insights into some of their favorite cultural artifacts.

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.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse emphasizes C. S. Lewis’s understanding of friendship among people who understand one another.

Thanos is a maniac in the sense used by G. K. Chesterton in his classic work Orthodoxy.

Danai Gurira’s play The Convert strips away spiritualized clichés to interrogate the real, complex, and often all-too-earthy motives behind conversion to Christianity..

William Hope Hodgson’s dark works are not without glimmers of something like light.