Articles by Geoffrey Reiter

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

Fifty years after its initial publication, The Last Unicorn still retains its power.

Timeline is easy to learn, quick to play, and satisfies the human love of trivia.

Arthur Machen’s novel The Three Impostors is a good reminder about the horrors of living in a godless cosmos.

Christ and Pop Culture writers break down some upcoming TV shows that we’re looking forward to watching.

The total eclipse can remind us that God, like nature, is also powerful, awful, and sublime.

In Spider-Man: Homecoming, the villain Adrian Toomes represents a disturbingly plausible version of a very natural human tendency: the idolization of family.

This poetic fusion of the cosmic and the local brings Lovecraft to the very doorstep of one of Christianity’s most foundational beliefs.

The contemporary stereotype of tradition — which Moana so beautifully subverts — is that it’s static and deadening.

Both Victoria and Albert hold fast to their “prudish” morality precisely because they are surrounded by the carnage of its rejection.

The knowledge celebrated on Jeopardy! demonstrates one aspect of witness: a positive delight in that “adorable triviality” of a universe that was made for more than our own paltry purposes.

Novels by Patricia McKillip and Ilana Myer suggest another role that poetry might yet play in our society: the project of re-enchantment.

As a tribute to Star Trek’s lasting legacy, here are some of CaPC writers’ favorite moments.

Quantico’s first season poses the question, When, if ever, does a large system become too corrupt to preserve?

By stressing spatial relativity and disorientation in space, the film demonstrates the need of a physics and metaphysics that incorporate relationship.

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is a fairy tale that self-consciously meditates on the role fairy tales play in the development of character.