1985 vs. 2025: A Hope/less Hallelujah
Maybe our lesson from 1985 and 2025 is to be strengthened in the three hopes of Scripture, in giving the past, present, and future over to God.
Apostle and the Machinery of Religion: What Makes It Work?
Does religion guarantee us deliverance out of the predicaments of being alive? Is it a machine we operate to tame and exploit transcendent reality?
The Horror of Human Consumption: How The Stepford Wives and Severance Invite Us to the Greater Vision of Loving Thy Neighbor
In The Stepford Wives and Severance we’re left wondering: where is the alternative vision to the mercenary hellscapes provided?
The Handmaid’s Tale Evokes a Longing for Peace and Justice
To many, the world of The Handmaid’s Tale looks eerily similar to our contemporary moment.
Dave Eggers’s The Circle : A Social Media Dystopia
In The Circle, no one is ever known, because knowledge about others is mistaken for actually knowing others.
Blockbuster Revelations: Disaster, Apocalypse, and Other Ways Film Tries to Fix Our World
What need within us is served by watching our society crumble beneath our protagonists’ feet, if not one that is cruel, even sadistic, in nature?
Dystopian Protagonists and the Pursuit of Greatness
All this focus on personal greatness has its drawbacks.
CAPC Magazine, October 2016: Dystopian Disillusionment
Stories are a powerful therapy for the human heart struggling with the heaviness of the world.
LOL Interwebz: I Just Found out That “Ransomware” Is a Thing, and That Seems Like a Good Excuse to Write Some Dystopian Sci-Fi
“Ransomware” started small, back in the mid-’10s. How could we have known technology wasn’t automatically good?
SNOWPIERCER’s Liturgy of the Machine
If there’s such a thing as an uncanny valley of spirituality, then not only has South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho discovered it, but his recent film Snowpiercer sets up camp squarely in the center of it.
