Guilty as Sin? Mother Taylor Swift and Our Tortured Desires
What should we do with our desires and what do they do to us? How do our desires shape who we are?
Keeping Time with Tár and Being Summoned by Your Future Self
Lydia Tár is shaped by the abuses she’s gotten away with and aimed toward a future that sustains the power of her position.
The Suffering Service of Jim Hopper
And, as inevitably as Hopper strives against the darkness of the Upside Down, he also struggles to choose the higher goods before him.
Joining Augustine’s War Against Narcissism
We like to limit narcissism to people who think they are pretty or handsome but, in truth, it is much deeper than that.
The Sinner Reminds Us That Trauma Is Always Communal
We are inherently relational creatures, and when we suffer, we suffer communally. Trauma is everyone’s problem.
City of God and the Ends of American Politics
From Augustine’s critique of Roman culture in City of God, we can come to see that neither of our political parties are the guardians of biblical morality.
“Something Good, Something Bad, a Bit of Both”: Natural Law, Nihilism, and Guardians of the Galaxy
It is precisely the contrast between the damaged yet ultimately sympathetic heroes and their maniacal foes that make Guardians of the Galaxy tick.
Weezer: The Sound of Heaven Rejoicing
Weezer’s ‘Everything Will Be Alright in the End’ continues the overarching themes of ‘Pinkerton’: confession, reconciliation, and restitution, specifically through the gift of song.
“Dying of Thirst”: Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid M.A.A.D. City as Theology of Confession
The true force of Lamar’s understanding of life is that he has no space for a divide between theology and lived life.
