Survivolatry: American Darwinism via The Walking Dead
Although it’s fiction, The Walking Dead reaches into our nonfiction hearts and draws to the surface survivolatry we excuse in ourselves.
The Walking Dead: Brokenness Will Find You
The Walking Dead speaks about us as it reveals our aches and longings. Our world is broken, and yet our hopes need not be dashed.
Walking with the Dead: Living on Borrowed Faith
Sometimes we need to live on borrowed faith.
Walking with the Dead: The Trauma and Healing of Community
“Community creates the potential for trauma, but it also provides the context for healing.”
Walking with the Dead: An Existential End to the Governor’s Hope
“The Governor can’t change because his experiences tell him redemption isn’t possible.”
Walking with the Dead: In which the Governor Remembers who He Is
“The Governor’s return comes only as he begins to see the value of the monster within.”
Walking with the Dead: The Governor Returns, but will He be Redeemed?
“Throughout the show the child/parent relationship plays a vital role in helping a person keep a firm grip on reality, or lose it completely.”
Walking with the Dead: The Immanence of God in the Zombie Apocalypse
“For all his convictions that God is still out there, still working some ultimate plan, at Herschel’s weakest moments it’s not enough.”
How “The Walking Dead” Solved Videogames’ Christ-Figure Problem
Can video games portray good examples of Christ Figures?
