Apostle and the Machinery of Religion: What Makes It Work?
Does religion guarantee us deliverance out of the predicaments of being alive? Is it a machine we operate to tame and exploit transcendent reality?
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.
Waiting for Gotham: Utopian Yearning in The Dark Knight Trilogy
We need these very human stories about what it means to long for hope in a dark world.
Wanderlust and Our Search for Utopia
Wanderlust redeemed is a hunger for Heaven.
Mad Men: Seeking Shangri-La
In the Mad Men universe, Shangri-La is what everyone has always been looking for. It is paradise.
