Editor’s Picks Archives

We’re all beautiful, horrible people, and with both of these realities in mind we can ask, “What’s the joke?”

Why do we do the things we do, and what end do our lives serve?

Courageous artists remind us that earthly beauty is always damaged.

What is the corrosive, and addictive, nature of power? And how does one learn to wield it well?

Movies like 9 to 5 belie Justice Kavanaugh’s notion that men of the ’80s had no choice but to conform to the patterns of the era’s most boorish comedies.

I did not choose to become a parent so much as I was made a parent by forces larger and greater than I could ever fathom or control.

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

Thanos is a maniac in the sense used by G. K. Chesterton in his classic work Orthodoxy.

Gen Z stumbled into social media blindly, but now we’re tasked with the responsibility of making sure that everything what happened to us doesn’t happen to our own kids.

The real Disney World—the physical space we enter—is an idealized derivative of imagined pasts, futures, and fantasies of the actual world.

Did Mister Rogers die with his hope intact? Is hope itself fragile? Can it withstand life in America today?

Wanting to connect was my reason to attend comic con that first time, but it cannot explain why I want to go back as much as I do.

If people of color are the only ones raising their voices and celebrating increased representation, then our collective forward progress will be minimal, indeed.

In the #MeToo era, an ending like that in My Fair Lady could give us all hope that people can change—something we desperately need to remember.

All of this mediation draws us away from the actual Word of God and toward our minds and an awareness of our public identity.

But it’s not just talk and rapping; Lecrae uses his talents to aim at the hearts of men, even when people don’t understand his message.