The Greatest Story Ever Adapted: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the Adaptation at the Heart of the Gospel
Why does this story continue to appeal to us? What does this latest version say about both the filmmaker and us?
The Monad and the Machine: What Godbreakers Gets Right About the End of Man
Godbreakers plays like a fever dream of our technological future, asking what happens when we forget that to be human is to be made of dust?
God, Us, and Them – Part III: Theological Reflections on Extraterrestrial Life
If someone—or something—is out there, the gospel isn’t fragile, and our theology is big enough to handle it.
Why It’s Important That Barbie Goes to the Gynecologist and Becomes a Real Girl
Underneath Barbie’s hot pink text of third-wave feminism, there’s a juicy subtext that values female embodied experience.
Intolerable Silence or Uncanny Attention? Memoria and the Nature of Existence
The subterranean dread of Memoria comes from the possibility that our attention may alight on things unexpected, unwanted, and unwelcome.
Don’t Throw Away Your Nativity Sets: Why Jesus May Not Have Been Born in a “Lower Room”
Jesus’s birth is a breach of human hospitality, not an example of it.
Superman Subverted: How Superman & Lois Reinvents the Man of Steel
Superman & Lois is interested in giving us a Superman who has gone through the ups and downs of human experience
Persuasion 151 | Church Talk, with C. Christopher Smith
Can the church lead the way in restoring the art of good conversation? C. Christopher Smith joins Persuasion to cast a grander vision for our church talk.
Low’s Double Negative and the Beauty of Damage
Courageous artists remind us that earthly beauty is always damaged.
Timeline and the God in Time
Timeline is easy to learn, quick to play, and satisfies the human love of trivia.
For the Love of S-Town
S-Town bears out the shared fate of body and place.
Last Temptations, “Attaboys,” and Dangerous Art
Films like ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ require deep digging that ultimately results in spiritual maturity.
Yuletide Intimations of Hope, Untarnished by Our Foibles
In all these Christmas symbols and practices, in all their manifestations and iterations and alterations, we see humanity’s earnest, finite attempts to express the ineffable.
New Year’s Resolutions as an “Expectation of Faith”
“While biological, historical, political, and social regularities exist — these are not mere figments of our imaginations — history is not so frozen in the death grip of sameness as world-worn cynics would have us believe.”
