Articles by M. V. Bergen

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.

If Exodus voices our collective hunger for deliverance, it also calls us to work for deliverance, toward liberatory action.

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.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Fury Road offers a glimpse of coming renewal, of rebirth.

Through love, we weather the worst of our decisions and become more human. 

Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give reminds us to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God.

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.

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.