General Culture Archives

My foul language is not nearly as frightening as the idea that God holds me accountable for acting in his name.

This religious fervor for keeping people in their place is what has allowed caste systems to endure, like a virus in the human heart.

Fashion bloggers, hyper-capitalist terraforming, JRPGs, and more.

God’s freedom rooted in constraints gives peace to His followers and hope to those outside the Church looking in.

My understanding of my faith compels me to take a stand in favor of poptimism, and against elitism, in the arts.

What transforms Christmas into something sacred is not its historical origin, but the heart of the believer.

I write this primarily as one for whom mourning was always going to be the inevitable result of this cycle’s campaign season.

Does religion guarantee us deliverance out of the predicaments of being alive? Is it a machine we operate to tame and exploit transcendent reality?

As we draw closer to Election Day, and even after the ballots have been cast, we want to consider how forces are seeking to drive us apart, and to what end.

AI’s ultimate legacy may end up being the damage that it does to our ability to understand, determine, and agree upon what is real.

Ancient Egyptians were deeply involved in questions of the afterlife: God did indeed set eternity in the hearts of all humanity across the ages. 

At its worst and best, Red Dawn challenges us to think about how we see war, masculinity, and honor.

To those tempted to take a tragic view this election season, I would counter that the Christian vision of reality is in fact a comic one.

Improv is more than making people laugh. It can also teach us how to love them well, just like Jesus did.

We are made for happiness, and happiness can only be found in the God of Holy Love.