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April 2014

April 17, 2014

The Doomsday Machine

My wife and I did not see—and have no plans to see—R.I.P.D., The Lone Ranger,...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

Overgrown

When James Blake debuted on the independent music scene in 2011 with his self-titled...

September 05, 2013

Two Sides of Paradise

If one were to construct a spectrum of contemporary filmmakers, ranging from the minimalist to...

July 2013

July 16, 2013

The Ear of the Heart

A friend recently gave me the autobiography of a Benedictine nun at the Abbey of...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

Faith, Fiction, and Reason

T.M. Luhrmann is a Stanford anthropologist famous for her research on evangelical devotional life, studying...

June 27, 2013

The Summer Pop Culture Found Religion

Behold the summer where pop culture (or at least its high priests) found religion. Two...

June 17, 2013

The Spirit and the Letter

As director of The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann made a controversial choice in choosing to depict the...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Longing, Communion, and the Great Gatsby

Like most of us, I read The Great Gatsby in high school, and although I...

May 28, 2013

Art and The Mysterious Beyond

A couple of posts over at “Good Letters” have thoughtfully addressed art’s purpose and how...

March 2013

March 30, 2013

Waiting for the Bells

One of the greatest scenes in the history of cinema comes at the end of...

March 14, 2013

The Beast in Its Tracks

I found myself dreading the release of Josh Ritter’s latest album, which is strange, because...

March 12, 2013

Art and Friendship

When one thinks of art and its relation to ethics, one of the first things...

March 02, 2013

Keeping Great Movies at a Distance

Did you see The Master? I did, when it came out. It was disturbing, filled with...

February 2013

February 23, 2013

Argo: The Year’s Best “Good Movie”

If a big theme with this year’s Best Picture nominees was a lack of...

February 22, 2013

Zero Dark Thirty: A Movie Without a Message

My thoughts on Zero Dark Thirty resemble my thoughts on Lincoln in many respects. Both...

February 21, 2013

Lincoln’s Sentimental Slip-Ups

Over the next three days, I’ll be blogging about a few of the Best Picture...

February 13, 2013

House of Cards

House of Cards is a new American political drama released on Netflix instead of a...

February 12, 2013

Literature Alone Won’t Save Us

The New Yorker's faith in literature has been shaken by the fact that a...

February 11, 2013

“There’s Nothing Wrong with America that Another Depression Couldn’t Fix”

Before yesterday, I would have thought my chances of encountering a popular rap song...