‘It’s Not about Deserve’: Truth, Pity, and a Deeper Magic in Wonder Woman
We crave heroes like Wonder Woman who give undeserved mercy to those who deserve destruction.

We crave heroes like Wonder Woman who give undeserved mercy to those who deserve destruction.

Minimalism shows us that owning more stuff cannot satisfy, but the idea of minimalism by itself will not satisfy in the long term either.

Stranger Things contrasts the ordinary with the extraordinary, the normal with the supernatural, and the mundane with the unexpected.

The Jesus portrayed by Ewan McGregor in the the film ‘Last Days in the Desert’ is a new kind of movie Messiah, taking on an all-too-real kind of Devil.

There is something in ‘The Bachelor’ that resonates with the heart of every one of us.

A reminder that the struggle for creativity amid daily toil is both ordinary and worthwhile.

In his Vine videos, King creates a fictive world that is, in one sense, enchanted.

The trend to combine mourning and rejoicing on Mother’s Day, to extend kindness to women who find this day painful, may actually undercut our good intentions.

The tragedy of lost childhoods can be redeemed and the wistfulness we sometimes feel over the past is an intimation and foretaste of a future of healing and joy and restoration.

Bilbo’s garden offers a glimpse into the world as it once was, and as it might be again.

We’re still looking to do things in private. We still want to shame people for doing certain things, which we then turn around and do ourselves.

“Some say “I follow Peter,” and others say “I follow Apollos.” Well, here are a few guys whose hearts are sold out for comedy alone. Soli commedia gloria.”

Like Marlowe’s Faustus, we all make our own deals with the devil in pursuit of “frivolous demands.”

Through delightful engagement with Harry Potter, readers are pointed to the ultimate reality.

‘Downton Abbey’ raises the significant question of whether we ought to treat people as means or as ends in and of themselves.

About Time might seem like a simple rom-com, but guest writer Marybeth Davis Baggett finds that it has surprisingly mature reminders for us about the importance of both specificity and the mundane for the cultivation of real love.
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