Do Our Decisions Matter? Agency and Prophecy in Deltarune

Deltarune continually distinguishes between an appointed end and the genuinely meaningful decisions made along the way. 

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.

The Twin Poles of Advent

Hope, love, joy, and peace are ours in grappling with the realities of death, judgment, heaven, and hell.

The Terrors of “Doin’ Better”: Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” and the Book of Job

It’s unsurprising that a song about losing what we love speaks to Gen Z, “the anxious generation.”

Let’s Talk About Angel Movies (and Hope When All Seems Lost)

Angels are a link between earth and heaven, providing guidance in life and comfort in death.

Apple TV+’s Shrinking: Why Things Get Worse Before They Get Better

This series captures the reality that the most difficult parts of life are the most transformative.

My Old Ass and Finding Beauty in Fatalism

We must not allow suffering to obstruct us from having the experiences that make life most worth living.

What We Get Right, and Wrong, About Hope in Sports

There are plenty of opportunities for us to practice hope in more significant or critical life circumstances by practicing hope in sports.

The Bob’s Burgers Movie: Hope and Hijinks for the American Family

The Belchers are both a representation of actual families—as real as an unvarnished food display—and the ideal we should aspire to.

Abbott Elementary: Cultivating Permanence in Impermanent Spaces

Abbott Elementary reminds us that the impermanent houses the eternal.

Spider-Man: No Way Home and Stories of Hopeful Restoration

Even criminals deserve a chance at redemption, and there is always hope where there is new life.

Persuasion 216 | Nature Is Healing

What’s the point of pursuing healing when it doesn’t seem to last? Erin and Hannah discuss in the finale to the Finding Common Ground series.

Nature Is Healing: All Creatures Great and Small

What James Herriot did as a vet—and what he does as a storyteller—he shows us the healing nature of healing nature.

The Strokes in 2020: Excluding Impatience and Embracing The New Abnormal

Goodness takes time, so why not live with hopeful ambiguity instead of bitter snap judgement?

Something Wicked, Something Holy: Light and Darkness in Something Wicked This Way Comes

To participate in politics in 2020 seems to be an exercise in fear, like the call from Dark in Ray Bardbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Pandemic Restrictions, Human Limits, and Meaningful Gestures

The pandemic may have slowed things down, but we still feel the crush of expectations and demands, perhaps more so while working from home and sensing internal and external pressure to prove that we’re pulling our weight.