Looking for Mercy in Netflix’s Lucifer
As believers, while we acknowledge the reality and transcendence of divine law, we also recognize its shortcomings—it cannot make us righteous—and its supersession by mercy.
A Call to Bear Witness: Watching Russian Doll in the Time of COVID
Russian Doll speaks to the isolation and surreality of our pandemic moment.
Mona Haydar Challenges Authoritarianism
As Mona Haydar makes clear, faith which worships human authority and depends on rules for other people is a form of godliness only, not the real thing.
Deliver Us: What the Prince of Egypt Has to Say about Suffering
If Exodus voices our collective hunger for deliverance, it also calls us to work for deliverance, toward liberatory action.
Trope Alert: The Real Virus Is Sin
The video makes it harder, not easier, for watching Christians to envision how their faith calls them to engage with the surrounding world in a time of crisis.
Whispers of Hope: Apocalyptic Comfort in Mad Max: Fury Road
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Fury Road offers a glimpse of coming renewal, of rebirth.
Fleabag Offers Hope for Those of Us Who Seem to Get Everything Wrong
Through love, we weather the worst of our decisions and become more human.
When Cops Make Mistakes: Thinking through Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give reminds us to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God.
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore Tackles the Existential Crisis
Mingled terror and hope will be with us so long as we live, as we can see in the indie black comedy I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore.
Telling Stories of Strange Worlds: Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin describes what should be familiar to Christians but is too often strange: the significance and worth of the individual human soul.
