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Whereas the world of addictive pleasure teaches us to feel, the world of beauty teaches us to sacrifice: to go beyond attention to the self and give attention toward another.

Cobra Kai’s lack of mercy on display makes us look for a different way, which the Christmas tradition provides. Christmas is all about mercy.

In Fatman, we root for depressed and weary Santa as the underdog, unaware a highly trained assassin is coming for him; yet we’re given hope through hints of his supernatural powers to fight injustice.

By opening himself and giving to others, Ebenezer Scrooge is living a more robust life himself.

Our team highlights important people and happenings that shaped the year that was 2020.

Our team highlights their favorite books and games from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

Our team highlights their favorite music and podcasts from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

Our team highlights their favorite TV shows from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

Our team highlights their favorite films from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

Just as Scrooge re-evaluates his life and actions when he comes face-to-face with his tombstone, so too does the tradition of memento mori ask us to evaluate our lives in light of eternity.

“Further up and further in” is an imaginary concept, informed by legend and myth, and also Scripture. These are invitations for all to partake in bigger experiences, conversations, joy, and peace.

Clinging to my perspective while reading endangers my practice of reading as a method of gaining insight.

For creators and the participants both, there lies a danger in loving a story to its own detriment. A perverse love fails to love a story for the good within it, but rather desires it to go on and on, never ending.

God’s view of time operates entirely differently from the human view, as His omniscience of all history and future outcomes prevents Him from being negatively affected by any present moment.

If we struggle believing the best is yet to come, the first step is acknowledging that not all nostalgia is healthy.

We are called not to stay as we were found or as we wish we had been found, but to grow in spiritual maturity and knowledge of the Gospel; to remain focused on the past is to refuse to grow spiritually.