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Hast Thou Considered the Heptapod?
Communication between different ideological worlds has never been more necessary and never seemed more impossible. This is…
More Fascinating than Fiction
Netflix announced its series The Crown as a “biopic” unprecedented in quality and cost—and that was not…
Books for Christmas 2016
Take a stand against the electrification of reading and consider the following, in properly bound form, as…
On our Need for the Real Thomas More
Next month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the film A Man for All Seasons. And if it’s…
Leonard Cohen, Religious Alchemist
Leonard Cohen was a Canadian, but he was the poet laureate of another nation: a nation of…
The Exorcist Takes Christianity Seriously
It is no secret that the entertainment industry often mocks Christianity. It has reached the point of…
Suzuki Method Uberparenting
My oldest child started piano lessons back in the nineties, due to somewhat base parental motives. A…
Patty Duke’s Unforgettable Life
Patty Duke burst onto the Broadway stage in 1959, at age twelve. She was cast as Helen…
The Moral Heart of Hamilton
After more than a year on Broadway, a hip-hop musical about Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton shows no…
Sins of Their Fathers
Films with a theological bent never get far from the oldest question of theodicy: Why does a…
Whit Stillman among the Janeites
The title puzzled us. Most of the world saw nothing remarkable about indie director Whit Stillman’s decision…
A Cinematic Lesson in Hope
At a moment like this when there doesn’t seem to be a lot going right—ascendant authoritarianisms throughout…
Music Man
Readers often find the opening chapters of 1 Chronicles stultifying. These pages contain list after list of…
Rhyme and Reason
Hymns are chimerical critters. Their bodies are made of poetry, and their breath is music. The natural…
Prince: Dance. Music. Sex. Religion.
Iʼm twenty years old, maybe twenty one. Weʼre four deep in my little two-door Saturn, on our…
