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October 2018

October 10, 2018

Humans Love Heroes

In the video James Corden approaches a podium wearing a dark grey suit and a...

August 2018

August 29, 2018

Caves of Wonder

To reach the mouth of Mammoth Cave’s historic entrance, we made a short descent into...

August 01, 2018

I’ll Be Waiting Right Here

Apparently, running late may be a symptom of optimism, creativity, and literally perceiving time differently....

July 2018

July 12, 2018

Inspired by Rachel Held Evans’s Inspired

Fridays used to be pizza and a movie nights, growing up. My dad would bring...

June 2018

June 12, 2018

I Am Not My Phone

How You Know It’s Time for a New Phone There was a moment when...

May 2018

May 21, 2018

The Incredible Hulk Meets Queen Divine Justice: A Fable

When Hulk stops in Africa for a drink of water, he happens to be within...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

Black Mirror and My Superego Nightmare

I watched Black Mirror’s “Crocodile” episode feeling as if writer/creator Charlie Brooker had gotten into...

January 2018

January 02, 2018

Mirrors, Monsters, and Art

Often when Aomame finishes showering and prepares to dress, she stands naked before a mirror...

September 2017

September 18, 2017

Parenting by Politics

The moment is freeze-framed in my mind: My eldest, Milo, red-faced with anger, his eyes...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Holmes, Help My Unbelief

There on my bookcase was a row of nine matching hardbacks. On their spines, a...

August 02, 2017

Rules for the Male Gaze

Once, in high school, a guy in the trombone section brought a Playboy to band...

July 2017

July 20, 2017

The Businessman’s Faith

One year ago, I abandoned the nonprofit and academic world to become a freelance copywriter,...

June 2017

June 13, 2017

Do Atheists Dream of Pearly Gates?

Yes even when I don’t believe there is a place in me inaccessible to unbelief...

May 2017

May 18, 2017

Trump and the Borgias: The Stuff of Great TV

It’s hard to imagine that anyone would look back on this period of American history...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Brunelleschi’s Balancing Act

The story goes that one day Filippo Brunelleschi, the goldsmith who would go on to...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

Mysteries Sherlock Holmes Can’t Solve

“No, you should definitely major in English,” I told our babysitter, a high-school senior from...

February 2017

February 06, 2017

How To Arm Yourself Against Irrationality

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have...

January 2017

January 19, 2017

Now is the Time to Read The Man in the High Castle

Imagine an alternate history in which a regime arose in the United States that believed...

November 2016

November 21, 2016

Listening to Beautiful Darkness

Waking from the Nightmare A little girl awakens in an autumn wood. She stands, looks...

November 02, 2016

The Best Words: Selections from the Sex Tapes of Tremendous Male Poets

I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh...

October 2016

October 18, 2016

Creative Tension in the White Imagination

Tension Isn’t Usually Pretty A Facebook video shows a deputy sheriff getting in the face...

September 2016

September 14, 2016

What My Kid Knew about Kubo

[Spoiler alert: This post is about the end of the movie, Kubo and the Two...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Laura Ingalls Wilder and Me

At night at the Ingalls Homestead in DeSmet, SD, we can see the pale, translucent...

July 2016

July 14, 2016

C.S. Lewis, Less Than Magical

I first encountered C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity, then quickly consumed The Screwtape Letters, The...

July 06, 2016

Boyhood and the Incarnation of Time

The hardest part of watching Boyhood for me wasn’t the film itself but going back...

June 2016

June 01, 2016

The Arab of the Future

I snuck into a chair while a friend was describing how growing up under a...

April 2016

April 05, 2016

A Dancing Christ

On Holy Saturday, I woke up at my sister's house in northern Minnesota with a...

October 2015

October 02, 2015

Wonder Woman, Flying, Part 2: Beauty and Sacrament

Continued from yesterday. In this scene from Batman’s first meeting with Wonder Woman in Trinity,...

October 01, 2015

Wonder Woman, Flying, Part 1: Transcendent Hope

It’s one of my favorite images of Diana of Themyscira, a.k.a. Wonder Woman: her proud,...