Divergent, Dante and a Trip to the Pit
If one wishes to make lots of money in this world, one does not major in English lit. But it does have its benefits. For one, it can allow you to criticize your co-workers in creative ways. (“Don’t you...
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As you might expect of a movie critic, I watch a lot of movies. Denver hosts most of the advanced screenings in my neck of the woods, which means I drive up to the Mile-High City a couple of times a...
View ArticleG.K. Chesterton: The Sinner Who Might Be a Saint
There is a move afoot to have G. K. Chesterton canonized as a Catholic saint. There’s a certain irony in this push to sainthood, given the man’s less-than-saintly appetites. He sometimes drank heavily...
View ArticleBurning Bush 2.0: Two-Hundred Pages of Pop Profundity
I just got a box of books Friday. Not just of any book, but my new book—Burning Bush 2.0: How Pop Culture Replaced the Prophet. Abingdon Press, my publisher, won’t be officially releasing it for...
View ArticleA Digression: The Little Prince
I’ve got a list of favorite books. F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men. Charles Dickens’ Bleak House. But if I had to name just one book—my favorite book—it...
View ArticleGame of Thrones: Naked and Ashamed
Game of Thrones concluded its fifth season with, as it always does, a lot of traumatic death. Characters dropped like clothes in a Miley Cyrus video, and The Atlantic called the finale a “Bleakness...
View ArticleThis May Be the Year’s Best Movie—And It’s Weirdly Christian
War Room is this year’s Christian smash. Its core evangelical audience has helped the Kendrick Brothers film make $67 million, and it’s not done yet. But while War Room is unquestionably 2015′s most...
View ArticleTogether, Mockingjay’s Katniss and Peeta Make a Pretty Good Christ Figure
G.K. Chesterton once wrote that “Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.” And indeed, it seems like the religion...
View ArticleIn the Heart of the Sea, in the Eye of God
In the Heart of the Sea gets under your skin. It’s hard for movies to stand out in December, surrounded as they are by Oscar contenders and box-office heavyweights. But a good movie sticks with you....
View ArticleThe Prejudice Against Christian Zombies
I was pretty disappointed with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which was released this past Friday. I had reasonably high expectations going in. As an old English lit major, I love me some Jane...
View ArticleThe Young Messiah: Waking Up
When do we become ourselves? When do we realize who we are? For most of us, the process of becoming us is a gradual one—one so slow and easy that we don’t even notice it. Oh sure, we’re here, in the...
View ArticleG.K. Chesterton: The Sinner Who Might Be a Saint
There is a move afoot to have G. K. Chesterton canonized as a Catholic saint. There’s a certain irony in this push to sainthood, given the man’s less-than-saintly appetites. He sometimes drank heavily...
View ArticleBurning Bush 2.0: Two-Hundred Pages of Pop Profundity
I just got a box of books Friday. Not just of any book, but my new book—Burning Bush 2.0: How Pop Culture Replaced the Prophet. Abingdon Press, my publisher, won’t be officially releasing it for...
View ArticleA Digression: The Little Prince
I’ve got a list of favorite books. F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men. Charles Dickens’ Bleak House. But if I had to name just one book—my favorite book—it...
View ArticleGame of Thrones: Naked and Ashamed
Game of Thrones concluded its fifth season with, as it always does, a lot of traumatic death. Characters dropped like clothes in a Miley Cyrus video, and The Atlantic called the finale a “Bleakness...
View ArticleThis May Be the Year’s Best Movie—And It’s Weirdly Christian
War Room is this year’s Christian smash. Its core evangelical audience has helped the Kendrick Brothers film make $67 million, and it’s not done yet. But while War Room is unquestionably 2015’s most...
View ArticleTogether, Mockingjay’s Katniss and Peeta Make a Pretty Good Christ Figure
G.K. Chesterton once wrote that “Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.” And indeed, it seems like the religion...
View ArticleIn the Heart of the Sea, in the Eye of God
In the Heart of the Sea gets under your skin. It’s hard for movies to stand out in December, surrounded as they are by Oscar contenders and box-office heavyweights. But a good movie sticks with you....
View ArticleThe Prejudice Against Christian Zombies
I was pretty disappointed with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which was released this past Friday. I had reasonably high expectations going in. As an old English lit major, I love me some Jane...
View ArticleThe Young Messiah: Waking Up
When do we become ourselves? When do we realize who we are? For most of us, the process of becoming us is a gradual one—one so slow and easy that we don’t even notice it. Oh sure, we’re here, in…
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