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February 2021

February 03, 2021

Don’t Throw a Coin to Your Hitcher!: Short movie notes

In the order in which I saw them, so pretty random. The Pajama Game: Beautiful...

April 2020

April 06, 2020

“But Where Is the Lamb?”: Several Millennia of Reflections on the Binding of Isaac

When my nephew was bar mitzvah, he chose (!) as his Torah portion the Akedah,...

January 2020

January 23, 2020

Other Natures, Different Laws

I recently finished Ted Chiang's first short-story collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, and...

December 2019

December 13, 2019

Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life”: How can a movie give “evidence of things not seen”?

I review, for America: With “A Hidden Life,” the writer and director Terrence Malick set...

August 2019

August 31, 2019

Gods of the Lost: Three short book notes

It can be hard to tell gifts of the spirit From clever counterfeits... --Mountain Goats...

August 17, 2019

“I Want Everyone to Get High!”… And Other Contemporary Christian Anthems

Relatively short reviews of three new(ish) albums by indie musicians who are various stripes of...

November 2018

November 11, 2018

I Know My Way Is Hard and Steep: The music of the Radiant Obscurity Collective

A little while ago a Marist seminarian emailed me about his "sacred prog band," the...

October 2018

October 21, 2018

God in Silence, God in Screams: Short movie reviews (with a theme!)

Prince of Egypt: A haunting cartoon retelling of the Exodus which pulls few punches. The...

April 2018

April 13, 2018

Who’d Adam and Eve It?: More Postlapsarian Blues

I am delighted to report that Harrison Lemke is at it again. This indie music...

April 26, 2017

Maybe Stop Seeking?

“A short story says, 'I looked for x, and didn’t find it,' or, 'I was...

April 25, 2017

In Your Eyes I See the Doorways to a Thousand Churches

One of the moments that stood out to me at that Calvin College "Faith &...

February 2017

February 04, 2017

Your Body Is a Battleax: Against the Weaponization of Gay Christian Witness, Plus More From Canada

So last weekend I got to visit Our Neighbor to the North, the magical land...

October 2016

October 12, 2016

The Unimaginable Atheist: Aleteia Took Down My “Loser Letters” Review; You Can Read It Here

Late last month Aleteia asked me to review "The Loser Letters" at CUA. I ended...

October 08, 2016

The Long Halloween: Some quick movie reviews

The House at the End of Time: Twisty Venezuelan family/haunted-house horror about an older woman...

October 07, 2016

The Unimaginable Atheist: I review “The Loser Letters”

and tell CUA they made a big mistake: “The Loser Letters,” Mary Eberstadt’s tale of...

September 2016

September 18, 2016

Doomed Queen and Beaten Champion: Concert review, Tristen & the Mountain Goats

A few weeks ago I got a chance to see the Mountain Goats in concert....

June 2016

June 07, 2016

Sad Bible Songs: I review Harrison Lemke’s “Fertile Crescent Blues”

at First Things: "Christian pop is unrelentingly cheerful.” That was Leah Libresco's conclusion when she...

October 2015

October 02, 2015

“On Abstaining from Communion”: Poignant, Funny Post from Max Lindemann

on a recurring theme here: ...As the episode with the baffled usher illustrates, some people...

August 2015

August 21, 2015

“Why Survivor’s ‘Broadway Boyfriends’ Will Keep Singing with Hillsong Church”: Jonathan Merritt

reports: The only thing worse than a false story is a partial one. That was...

July 2015

July 23, 2015

A Survey of “Missionary Kids”–Fascinating Even if You’re NOT a Parent

but maybe especially interesting for parents seeking to raise their kids as disciples. Missionaries' children...

June 2015

June 19, 2015

“Indie Music’s Christ-Haunted Women”: I’m at AmCon

with some answers to a question I asked here recently: I listen to a lot...

May 2015

May 31, 2015

Where Are the Lady Mountain Goats?

A cri de coeur! Where are the women who write weird, metaphor-laden personal songs about...

May 21, 2015

“Tom Stoppard Plays With God”: I’m in AmCon

reviewing a new play: “The Hard Problem” is Tom Stoppard’s first work for the stage...

March 2015

March 22, 2015

“Bible Study”: Tony Hoagland

this is really me saying how glad I am that the First Things blog has...

December 2014

December 12, 2014

“How Should Secular People Approach Sacred Art?”: The Best Essay of Its Kind

I've read a ton of these and Pelagia Horgan's appreciation of Fra Angelico is the...

November 2014

November 23, 2014

“The Prize of the Defeated”: Matthew Walther on Don Colacho

click: Nicolás Gómez-Dávila’s name is not one to conjure with on these shores or, probably,...

September 2014

September 17, 2014

The Proper Basis for a Friendship is a Mutual Misunderstanding: Iris Murdoch’s “The Book and the Brotherhood”

The setup for The Book and the Brotherhood seems like one of those survivor's-guilt campus...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

God Is Working His Purpose Out

Can we tell what God is trying to tell us with events in our lives?...

July 2014

July 19, 2014

“In Sweden, Human Darkness Is Confronted by the Arts, Not the Church”

terrific final paragraphs: The culture wars afflicting the Church of England are basically over. By...

July 12, 2014

Pelagius of Montreal

1989's does-what-it-says-on-the-tin Jesus of Montreal is two hours long, and for the first hour and...