“Charles Taylor” Articles

Christopher Nolan offers a gentler, if no less provocative, exploration of humanity at the end of its scientific abilities.

Alex Garland’s 2018 sci-fi/horror film reminds us that the world contains powers that refute our modern rationality.

David Lowery’s Arthurian tale reveals that humanity’s rational mastery over the earth is a self-satisfied illusion.

Mother Mary declares that the modern age is not so impervious to the spiritual as it would like to think.

Fantasy stories can do so much more than encourage nonspecific spiritual yearnings through fantastic settings and characters.

Lydia Tár is shaped by the abuses she’s gotten away with and aimed toward a future that sustains the power of her position.

Even more than Soul, Toy Story speaks into our crisis of meaning in a way that corresponds with the Christian story.

Shang-Chi moved away from the modern “buffered” self toward a recognition of the enchanted “porous” self.

Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone could contend for human worth on the basis of a shared imago Dei, a spiritual aspect that provides an inherent value to each individual, while the reboot seems content to regard men and women materialistically.

When consumerism dictates what is considered “good,” tradition and standards are reduced to marketing and the notion of craft itself is hollowed out.

Novels by Patricia McKillip and Ilana Myer suggest another role that poetry might yet play in our society: the project of re-enchantment.

At this point in my life, nostalgia has become indispensable to my formation as a spiritual disciple.

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

Is God still relevant for the modern world? Rob Bell thinks so. So do we. The real question is: how?