Apple TV+’s Shrinking: Why Things Get Worse Before They Get Better
This series captures the reality that the most difficult parts of life are the most transformative.

This series captures the reality that the most difficult parts of life are the most transformative.

Lorne Michaels was confident of the foundation of SNL even if he couldn’t distill it into a palatable premise or a memorable meme.

We have our own agents provocateur who manipulate the impressionable to turn neighbor against neighbor, sowing seeds of suspicion and division with lies and conspiracies.

Season 3 of The Bear stands as a warning against the kind of mission drift that can rob a caring institution of its hospitality.

Lucy is an idealist in search of a story, a believer desperately seeking something worthy of belief.

Maybe we have to hit rock bottom in order to see ourselves in the mirror truthfully.

Star Wars: Tales of the Empire suggests we are first meant to pity and forgive, not fight, our enemies.

Art can be pornographic even if not intentionally so.

The mysterious God of the universe uses mysteries, and His words in the Bible, to encounter and be encountered.

No matter where he was or who he came in contact with during his fitness evangelization heyday, Richard treated others with dignity.

In Gilmore Girls, motherhood is a symbolic handing over of our life’s story, the giving up of ourselves for the ones who need us.

This is the paradox of Limitless and of life: we want to celebrate aging and, yes, even death, but we also fear both and try to stave them off as much as possible.

For both Percy Jackson and the Christian, to know your Father is to know your destiny—and in that, to find your true identity.

Our favorite TV of 2023 includes academic comedy, zombie horror, trickster gods, the final frontier, and more.

Some Christians want their version of revival so desperately that they try to force revival through fearmongering.

Taking the high road is easy if you’re a pharisee. It’s harder if you’re a utilitarian. Jack Ryan is (un)lucky in that he’s both.
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