“Supernatural” Articles

If demons do exist, if real exorcists are not crackpots, it may be that we escape to the movies hoping reality might be tamed.

Poirot learns the limits of his overreliance on rationality, and is beckoned to the realm of faith and the light of life.

The exploration of good versus evil is one of the things that makes fantasy so important.

The benevolence of the spirits in My Neighbor Totoro serves as a reminder that the spiritual realm—though mysterious and unlike our own—is not something to fear.

Fiction is what we turn to when we have nagging questions that we can’t quite put into more precise language.

There is something deeper that lingers in the human psyche—something more than the experience, or a twisted desire for evil—something that horror taps into and awakens.

It’s shockingly awful and shockingly compelling as horror because Paxton’s character remains so upsettingly loving and so fatherly throughout, clearly, sincerely believing in the killing he’s doing.

Even in the Hudson Valley, I think the larger appeal of Halloween is that our local ghosts can scare us, but we can, ultimately, domesticate them.

What is it about the idea of things, powers, and beings beyond nature that draws people into these stories?

They made Pirates a supernatural story set in the “real world” that helps us to grasp the spiritual realities that those drowning in the real tend to deny.

There is more to this world than meets the eye. Read all about it in this special edition of the Christ and Pop Culture Magazine.

The spiritual side of things come out on this episode of The 25 as “Dr. Strange”, “Speechless”, and “Lore” make the nomination list.

The idea of a unexplainable supernatural occurrence is the reason Drew and Tyler chat with Liz Wann about her article “Stranger Things and Our Quest for the Extraordinary in the Ordinary.”