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Although it’s fiction, The Walking Dead reaches into our nonfiction hearts and draws to the surface survivolatry we excuse in ourselves.

In contemporary U.S. society—as in Twain’s post-Civil War South, as in Le Guin’s 1960s culture war America—our shared humanity is dangerously easy to ignore.

Full of armchair critics with penchants for lazy analysis, The Razzies stunt an audience’s ability to interact with movies instead of doing the good work of a critic.

Life, Animated allows us to see how a family loves each other, though they were required to take a journey they hadn’t been expecting.

Denzel Washington encapsulates and brings to life the character and embodiment of our own fathers with haunting authenticity. By playing one man so well, he plays millions.

There have always been awards given out for not-so-award-worthy reasons.

Lament recognizes that we are pictures of the kingdom of God, not drawn to scale.

Video games offer new and meaningful systems in which to craft and critique experiences.

If the traditional American approach to dieting and exercise doesn’t help us tame our flesh, what will?

It’s not about us. And we think too little of ourselves.

We all long to be awed and to believe in something beyond ourselves.

This Christmas, let’s step back and consider what we are inviting the world to observe.

It’s not a religious event, per se, but it buoys my spirit to love and be loved, to place myself within a tradition of ever-present love.

If we know we are called to care for people—to get in the trenches with them—why is it so easy to convince ourselves not to?

It’s one thing to be stuck in a trench, but it’s exhausting to expect perfection of your fellow soldier, slogging in the same mud as you.

The life of the peacemaker is full of grace and work, urgency and patience, purpose and hope. May it be so for us.