“Time” Articles

The appeal of the multiverse metaphor in everyday conversation is that it functions as an anaesthetic for regret and makes decisions feel less weighty.

Hope, love, joy, and peace are ours in grappling with the realities of death, judgment, heaven, and hell.

These memories could make holidays without my daughter miserable. But the opposite is true. Remembrance makes Christmas all the more precious.

Lydia Tár is shaped by the abuses she’s gotten away with and aimed toward a future that sustains the power of her position.

In The Aviator, Vodolazkin redirects our attention away from history as a sequence of ideological movements and towards the individual actions of human beings, each imbued with eternity.

You have to choose a few things, sacrifice everything else, and deal with the inevitable sense of loss that results.

Ambition sways and fools us into believing that our motives for success are pure.

It feels weird admitting that something as trivial as a Marvel movie thrust open theism back to my consciousness.

This reciprocal, mutual mentoring is possible only because of time inversion, proving that Tenet’s sci-fi premise is no mere gimmick. The story’s moral core depends on it. 

The Variant Lokis embody the literal thousands of branches the God of Mischief’s life could have taken.

Perhaps Loki’s moment of self-clarity all the way back in episode one was actually describing the TVA itself: “It’s part of the illusion. It’s the cruel, elaborate trick conjured by the weak to inspire fear.”

With the introduction of the Multiverse, this is the sort of plot device that will bring about resurrections and connect all sorts of stories that weren’t supposed to be connected.

Our team highlights their favorite films from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.

Here’s what everyone was reading at Christ and Pop Culture in 2020.

God’s view of time operates entirely differently from the human view, as His omniscience of all history and future outcomes prevents Him from being negatively affected by any present moment.

If we struggle believing the best is yet to come, the first step is acknowledging that not all nostalgia is healthy.