Poor Things and the Pursuit of Pleasure
Poor Things reflects a dark and scathing image of our world, of our disordered longings, and of the quest to satisfy them.

Poor Things reflects a dark and scathing image of our world, of our disordered longings, and of the quest to satisfy them.

I can’t think of a single other video game with the moxie to demand that players learn the stations of the cross to raid a tomb.

We swim in the waters of partisan conflict, and we can hardly recognize that underneath all the posturing, strategizing, and warfare tactics is supposed to be a real vision of human flourishing.

In this new mini-series called A Persuasion Christmas, each episode will feature conversation with Erin and Hannah about a specific way pop culture is shaping our mindset and approach to celebrating Christmas.

Persuasion has a guest! Kendall Vanderslice joins us for a conversation about time constraints, consumption, and investing the hours needed to hone your craft as part of our series The Creative Process.

Anne Kennedy joins Persuasion for an overview of Holy Week happenings and ways Christians can more meaningfully celebrate the resurrection.

Revisiting good fiction—while by no means a replacement for Scripture—can become a vital part of the Christian life.

In The Tech-Wise Family, Andy Crouch provides a fresh articulation of how the nature of technology can be conflict with the purpose and intention of home, family, and community.

If you’re wondering how someone can just declare himself pope, keep in mind that things in the church were way less formal back then.

The songs of Daniel Tiger have become little liturgies that shape my daughter’s days.

Traveling to Disney World looks more and more like a religious pilgrimage than many would care to admit.

The rituals and comforts of Small Town, America, are not necessarily unique to Stars Hollow.

Hillsong corporate worship, authenticity in worship and the appreciation of different worship traditions are the subject as Drew and Tyler interview David Roark.

Sometimes feeling the right things takes practice. Sometimes you have to rehearse the outward forms before the inward form takes root.

Deep down, we are liturgical creatures, designed to live, to learn, to work, and even to play according to guided rhythms.

Maybe poetry sounds like a weird approach to computer passwords, but it’s a solution that’s part of a long and storied human tradition.
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