Articles by Geoffrey Reiter

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.

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.

Two of our staff writers discuss the new Star Trek series.

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.