Where the Frontier Meets the Galaxy: The Western Genre and the Moral Imagination of Star Wars
Both the Western and Star Wars imagine a world where character must be forged and not assumed, where goodness is real, but never cheap.

Both the Western and Star Wars imagine a world where character must be forged and not assumed, where goodness is real, but never cheap.

In a time when winning has become the ultimate morality, and the struggle to gain and maintain power has turned otherwise absolute standards of goodness into subjective opinion in the eyes of so many, we all need more of what Ted Lasso is dishing out.

Hiding behind Ramsey’s statement is a subtle, unspoken moral declaration that wealth comes from good behavior and poverty comes from bad, and both financial conditions are the result of one’s character.

These truths seem obvious, but perhaps we need a reminder.

The fruits of the spirit that guide Christian character formation differ from the “human capital” Jeffrey Selingo discusses in his book There Is Life after College.
Ben Bartlett relieves the depression and gives us a reason to get out of bed in the morning.
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