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Terrence Malick’s Openness to Life
Terrence Malick has baffled many of the film critics who once championed him. His detractors call his…
David Bowie’s Search for God
One doesn’t often find people of faith, especially conservatives, rallying around an entertainer who became famous for…
Worship Wars
I listened in on a conversation recently on “the worship wars” in evangelical-style congregations and I heard…
Last Year’s Horror Cornucopia: Suffering in Style
Last night I watched The Final Girls, Todd Strauss-Schulson’s 2015 slasher parody about mourning. It’s charming, touching,…
Falstaff the Prophet
His face boasts a geological set of wrinkles, which fold seismically with each witticism or bold-faced lie…
Devotio Tarantino
Tarantino and Theologyeds. jonathan walls and jerry wallsslideshow, 264 pages, $19.99 Quentin Tarantino once said, “Movies are…
Spotlight on the Vulnerable
Any major American newspaper would immediately fire a reporter who was caught using composite characters or inventing…
The Christian Vision of “The War Room”
Released last summer in theaters, and now available on DVD, The War Room was the most surprising…
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Not long after the Civil War, John Wesley Work, an African American church choir director and scholar…
Don’t Kill the Moon
The long-running British sci-fi staple Doctor Who has quietly become one of the most pro-life shows on television. Under…
The Moral Universe of Hannibal
A woman lovingly plucks a dead pheasant. A man places a human arm on a cutting board…
Go To Church, Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber famously got his start in the music industry at the age of thirteen after being…
I’ll Write Til I’m Right With God
“I am a sinner, who’s probably gonna sin again” Kendrick Lamar’s breakthrough album, good kid m.A.A.d. city,…
Planning for Beauty
Discussions of liturgical music in many Catholic parishes have become needlessly polemical. The one thing we all…
Is Vice More Interesting than Virtue?
Since at least the age of Milton, whose Satan in Paradise Lost allegedly outmatches the other characters in…
