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October 2026

October 02, 2026

Aslan with the Female Voice

"The Magician's Nephew" movie from Netflix will be released in February. But controversy has broken...

September 2026

September 04, 2026

Luther vs. Kuyper on Christianity & Culture

Both Luther and Kuyper agree that Christ is Lord over all things. A Kuyperian approach...

August 2026

August 13, 2026

Labeling AI

One attempt to defend human beings against AI intrusions is requiring that AI-generated material be...

August 04, 2026

An Odyssey without the Good Parts

Now that I have seen Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, I am greatly disappointed. Not so much...

May 2026

May 25, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 5/25/26

Trump's settlement with the IRS that he controls. The case of the yawning fetuses. And...

May 18, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 5/18/26

New federal regulation could devastate religious colleges & seminaries. A lawsuit against Big Weed for...

March 2026

March 11, 2026

A Video of John Kleinig Discussing Hermann Sasse

[A free post] Hermann Sasse was one of the leading confessional Lutheran theologians of the...

March 09, 2026

Monday Miscellany, 3/9/26

The war in Iran keeps spreading. A film from 1897 about dealing with robots. And...

August 2025

August 14, 2025

Christianity’s Improved Social Status

"As the decline in religious attendance has slowed, the past few years have also seen...

May 2025

May 12, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 5/12/25

Trump apparently stopped a new war that had broken out between India and Pakistan, both...

April 2025

April 14, 2025

Holy Week Miscellany, 4/14/25

There are two "Last Supper" movies. Even tourists won't be allowed to worship in China. ...

January 2025

January 15, 2025

Trump’s Impact on Popular Culture

Donald Trump's political victory seems to be accompanied by a larger "vibe shift" in American...

December 2024

December 25, 2024

My Christmas Presents to You, 2024

Merry Christmas! A custom of this blog has been to give Christmas presents to my...

October 2024

October 02, 2024

A Conversation Between Two Lutheran Humorists

Humor can have salutary moral and religious effects, as we see in the literary traditions...

September 2024

September 13, 2024

Nostalgia Fixation and the End of Progressivism

Have you noticed how many movies today are remakes of --almost always better--movies made years...

July 2024

July 18, 2024

Second Thoughts on the Acting Vocation

John Corbett found fame and fortune in his successful 30-year-old career as an actor. But...

June 2024

June 28, 2024

Agatha Christie and the Mystery of Mysteries

There is a connection between the great mystery writer Agatha Christie, controversies among Catholics about...

March 2024

March 26, 2024

New “Chronicles of Narnia” Movies in the Works

Netflix has started production on a new series of "Chronicles of Narnia" movies that will...

February 2024

February 26, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 2/26/24

Censoring both "old climate denial" and "new climate denial"; saving university education; and we're just...

December 2023

December 13, 2023

Napoleon Complex

The biggest problem of "Napoleon" movie is that it conveyed nothing about why Napoleon was...

August 2023

August 28, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 8/28/23

Conservatives' pop culture moment, the courts keep supporting religious liberty, and Republican big spenders.

August 02, 2023

Attendance is Down in Churches, But Up at Christian Movies

As Hollywood flounders, faith-based films are flourishing. Now some big studios and big directors are...

July 2023

July 24, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 7/24/23

Hollywood and Big Media are in a state of crisis over falling revenue, a writers...

May 2023

May 08, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 5/8/23

The Navy tries the Bud Light strategy, a defense of writers, and a grab bag...

March 2023

March 13, 2023

Monday Miscellany 3/13/23

Forbidden words, the charge that the gospel promotes violence, the cultural conservatism of Native Americans,...

March 06, 2023

A Cranach Miscellany

So much to blog about! So little time! So much of interest, yet I don't...

February 2022

February 15, 2022

The “Lord of the Rings” Series Will Be Family Friendly After All

Contrary to earlier reports, Prime's upcoming series The Rings of Power, a prequel to Lord...

August 2021

August 12, 2021

A Post-Christian Version of a Christian Classic

In my opinion, informed by decades of literary study, one of the greatest stories in...

July 2021

July 14, 2021

C. S. Forester’s Novels of Vocation

C. S. Forester's novel "The Good Shepherd" (made into the Tom Hanks movie "The Greyhound"),...

June 2021

June 08, 2021

James Bond after 50 Years

We've been watching the Sean Connery James Bond movies (streaming free at Pluto and Tubi),...