Nathan Roberts is working toward a PhD in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Surface Tensions: Searching for Sacred Connection in a Media-Saturated World (which this was excerpted from), and his writing has been featured on TIME.com, Patheos.com, The High Calling, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Follow him at facebook.com/nathanrobertsauthor.

Entertaining Media

What are we doing when we want to be entertained?