“Counting Stars” with Aristotle: Why Do I Feel So Right Doing the Wrong Thing?
OneRepublic’s song joins the chorus of voices throughout history which have mourned the perplexing human condition.
Kaos Drains: What This Provocative (and Cancelled) Series Says About Our Distaste for Disorder
When we are expected to invest in storytelling whose very basis is un-formation, it seems we largely ignore it.
The Utopian Peccadilloes of Star Trek: Lower Decks
The darker subtexts of Star Trek: Lower Decks point to the reality that, in a very real and metaphysical sense, there are no “little” sins.
A Hidden Life, Patriotism, and a Rightly Ordered Love for America
Love of country is good, but love of country must never supersede love of God, and it’s only by loving God most that we can love our country in the way we should.
The Ickabog: A Fairy Tale and a Parable to Sear Our Consciences
I feel a searing of my own conscience as I read The Ickabog, especially in the context of events unfolding across America with the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent protests.
Trope Alert: The Real Virus Is Sin
The video makes it harder, not easier, for watching Christians to envision how their faith calls them to engage with the surrounding world in a time of crisis.
Not Like Me: The Irony of Heeding the Tragic Hero
Simply upholding these tragic hero figures as warnings ultimately cheapens our understanding of both human depravity, and, more consequently, the extent of grace.
A New Hunger Games and the Unique Horror of YA Dystopian Stories
Why hasn’t YA dystopian literature returned before now, especially when it is taking up ample space on our television and movie screens, and in real life?
HBO’s Chernobyl and the Communal Nature of Sin
Chernobyl is an excellent show… with its emphasis on the net effect of human sin—the disproportionately catastrophic results of seemingly small errors.
Melodies of Sin and Salvation: Why Modern Worship Music Needs a More Holistic View of Salvation
Our worship should teach us to long for more than our individual salvation, but to long for the redemption of the whole world.
In The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen Brothers Show Love for the Good Book
By playing to the canon in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, while at once forging their own trail, the Coens manage to both nod to and question the orthodoxy of what we’ve been told about the grand ‘ole world of outlaws and guns and rickety wagons.
America’s Evangelical Leaders Could Learn a Lot From Rachael Denhollander
Our congregations would benefit from future pastors who’ve been influenced by women like Rachael Denhollander.
Louis’s Sins and Mine
Art doesn’t reduce our questions and conflictedness; it multiplies them.
VidAngel Let Me Remove the Sex from Game of Thrones, so Why Do I Still Feel Like a Pervert?
The VidAngel approach to Game of Thrones forced me to think critically about why I watch the things I do.
What Lamar Odom Can Teach Hugh Freeze
Just as Lamar Odom could confess in his interview that he wanted to get high, Coach Freeze too can be honest about the current state of his heart.
Attack on Titan, Overcoming Evil with Mercy
Season 2 of Attack on Titan is filled with actions that are incredibly hard to empathize with or understand.
