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February 2016

February 05, 2016

Brooklyn: A Drama of Discernment

One of the hardest things in life is having two good choices that are completely...

January 2016

January 19, 2016

Eden’s Border: Where Objects Have Stories

We’ll have to go back to the gun shop today. There’s no way around it....

December 2015

December 29, 2015

God is Sacrificial Love

If God is love, as we’re told, then what kind of love is he? In...

December 14, 2015

The Greater Evil: Proscription or Compulsion?

There’s a new law in China, and it’s aimed at weakening a faith. As the...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Cry Melodies

This post was made possible through the support of a grant from The BioLogos Foundation’s...

October 2015

October 26, 2015

A Good Fight: Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Two Days, One Night)

If a pair of writer/directors exists that can rival Joel and Ethan Coen for a...

October 06, 2015

Tale of the Lucky and the Star-Crossed

They say that luck is where hard work meets opportunity. But often the ones who...

September 2015

September 10, 2015

A Lottery for Barbarians

From time to time in my unorthodox career, I’ve found myself teaching a class—be it...

August 2015

August 24, 2015

Where’s the Guilt?

I’ve had the experience of dealing with renters from time to time, though more in...

August 03, 2015

Original Sin and the Warp Effect

One of the great writers—to my recollection, Flannery O’Connor—said something to the effect that everything...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

The Eighth Day: Reclaiming a Neglected Novel

It must be a common occurrence—having certain inanimate things make periodic appearances throughout a life,...

June 2015

June 22, 2015

The Art of the Authentic: Bill Baer’s Times Square

In 1973, Orson Welles made a documentary, F for Fake, in which he followed the...

June 03, 2015

The Science and Sundayness of Play

This post was made possible through the support of a grant from The BioLogos Foundation’s...

May 2015

May 12, 2015

Facing Calvary

There’s a line from last year’s thought-provoking film, Calvary, that’s uttered by a young French...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

The Soul of the Law

At the beginning of the old Norton Anthology of English Literature (4th Ed.) appeared this...

April 07, 2015

Saving the World: A Reflection on Germanwings Flight 9525

A couple of weeks ago, a German man decided to kill himself. There are thousands...

March 2015

March 20, 2015

My Only Begotten Sin

Because I remain restless and impatient even in middle age, I am often only halfway...

March 06, 2015

God in the Godforsaken Places

I live in the shadows of Washington, D.C. It’s a big place and said to...

February 2015

February 11, 2015

Hazel Motes Is Out of Time

TCM broadcast John Huston’s film version of Wise Blood yesterday, and I wound up watching...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

The Sublime and Beautiful

From antiquity to the Enlightenment, one of the great aesthetic dichotomies involved the sublime and...

January 14, 2015

Hitch Your Wagon to a Want Ad

The year has turned, and I have yet another chapter in the annals of things...

December 2014

December 24, 2014

Certain Poor Shepherds

Long ago, when there were only three television stations, you had to wait for what...

December 11, 2014

The Infinite Sincerity of Bill Murray

In Bill Murray’s long movie career, I don’t think he’s ever played a flat out...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

The Subtle Traitor

I’m about to describe a character. He doesn’t exist everywhere, nor is he a threat...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Breaking the Fall in Alice McDermott’s Someone

At the beginning of Alice McDermott’s latest novel, Someone, an unattractive but good-natured girl divulges...

October 07, 2014

The Saints of Mount Midoriyama

Loving my fellow man has never come easy. Candidly speaking, I love a small contingency...

September 2014

September 17, 2014

We All Have a Place on the Great Chain of Being

Somewhere along the Great Chain of Being, we all have our place. That’s an old...

August 2014

August 26, 2014

Lessons of The Giver

Memory, of both the best and the worst, is central to guidance. Without it, we...

August 07, 2014

Aesop’s Fables Are Always in Fashion

Called upon to present a gift to a small boy, I was asked to pick...

July 2014

July 22, 2014

Lavender and Pennies

Whenever you detect the mysterious smell of lavender in a house, it means a friendly...