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January 2014

January 22, 2014

Media Matrimony for Better for Worse, Part 1

Recently a friend put me in touch with Christian author, W. David O. Taylor (editor...

December 2013

December 23, 2013

Christmas Past

I once watched a boy steal all my Christmas presents. I lay on my stomach...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

He Loves Me Anyway: Black Nativity

Guest Post by Christine A. Scheller What good is a shepherd that goes to sleep?...

October 2013

October 02, 2013

A Good War Is Hard To Find

A few nights ago, after Jess and the kids were in bed, I finally bit...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

Falling Upward: Don Draper Meets Richard Rohr

Guest Post By Cathy Warner The opening credits of Mad Men have always disturbed...

August 26, 2013

The Mill and the Cross

In Breughel’s panoramic painting, “The Procession to Calvary,” the fallen Savior, collapsed under the cross beam,...

August 07, 2013

Orthodox Films Fill the Void

Living on the F train subway line in Brooklyn, I am regularly exposed to one...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

The Impossible Shows Us How To Live

If you were to live a day as though you’d be dead at the end...

July 15, 2013

What We Learn

As he is evacuated from a battle zone, Chris Taylor—Oliver Stone’s protagonist in Platoon—marches us...

July 02, 2013

Antisuperchrist: How the Man of Steel Saves, Part 2

Guest Post By Lucas Kwong Today I want to take up the question that ended...

June 2013

June 30, 2013

Antisuperchrist: How the Man of Steel Saves, Part 1

Guest Post By Lucas Kwong We may have taken Jesus out of our schools, but...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

Prime Time Secrets

Recently I completed work on the first season of The Americans, a new FX drama...

May 27, 2013

Watchmen and Dr. Manhattan’s Miracles

I came late to the DC Comic’s collected Watchmen, the groundbreaking graphic novel by Alan...

May 22, 2013

Before the Fall of Baseball

As a child, school did not rank high on my priority list, which meant my...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

Israel at 65: Caught in a Homeland Trap

“People caught in a homeland-trap,” writes the late Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai in “National Thoughts,”...

April 16, 2013

The Last Taboo in Hollywood, Take 3

In yesterday’s post I did a “second take” (in keeping with the Hollywood motif) on...

April 15, 2013

The Last Taboo in Hollywood, Take 2

I didn’t plan on there being a second take when I sat down to write...

April 11, 2013

Amour and Fear

Guest Post By David P. Clark, M.D. On the day I graduated from medical school...

April 10, 2013

On Roger Ebert and Cinematic Stockholm Syndrome

For Chaz Ebert When I was a child in the ‘80s, a stranger who resembled...

March 2013

March 26, 2013

The Last Taboo in Hollywood

Ask my wife: I’ve been known to be a sucker for some fairly wooden programming...

March 12, 2013

The Hobbit, the Holy Spirit, and Calculus

It was my eleven-year-old’s turn to pick a movie, and he chose The Hobbit, just...

March 01, 2013

Feeling the Questions: A Serious Man and Footnote

“Why does he make us feel the questions if he won’t give us the answers?”...

February 2013

February 24, 2013

Arts and Faith Oscars 2013 Chat

Join Image's Arts and Faith discussion community for a live Oscars Night chat below! All...

February 11, 2013

Top 25 Films on Marriage

Arts & Faith's Top 25 Films on Marriage list was recently released by Image Journal, in...

December 2012

December 24, 2012

St. Linus the Evangelist

An Encore Post ABC recently ran its annual showing of A Charlie Brown Christmas, one...

December 13, 2012

The Hobbit on Steroids

In a public library, there waited The Hobbit. And in a cineplex, there screened The...

November 2012

November 23, 2012

Holy Motors’ Motor Skills

As Holy Motors begins, a sleepwalker leans against his bedroom wall, upon which a forest...

November 21, 2012

Which is the Better Story? Ang Lee’s Life of Pi

Guest Post By Christine A. Scheller There’s a scene early in Ang Lee’s majestic Life...

November 13, 2012

Margaret and the Blight Man Was Born for

Near the end of Kenneth Lonergan’s film, Margaret, a seventeen-year-old girl sits next to her...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

A Tale of Two Rivers

“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived...