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July 2018

July 24, 2018

Taking Our Chances with Choice

Contingency…subject to chance…uncertain…right down to the molecular level. — Christian Wiman It is one of...

April 2018

April 12, 2018

Revisiting Moonrise Kingdom

"It's the rhythm in rock music that summons the demons," said the church community of...

April 09, 2018

Stepping into the Virtual Realities of Ready Player One and God’s Not Dead

The best way to write about the third installment of God’s Not Dead is to...

February 2018

February 06, 2018

Arts & Faith Top 10 films of 2017: Part 2

Cinema at its best has the power to transform minds, to inspire generations, and to...

February 05, 2018

Arts & Faith Top 10 films of 2017: Part 1

Cinema at its best has the power to transform minds, to inspire generations, and to...

January 2018

January 29, 2018

Phantom Thread : A Union of Psyche and Eros

Anyone blessed enough to receive a good classical education is somewhere along the way warned...

January 25, 2018

Pearl of Hope: Personal Shopper and the New Year

Near the end of 2017, I rewatched Oliver Assayas’s ghost story film Personal Shopper not...

December 2017

December 20, 2017

The Play’s the Thing

In a recent interview about some stories I’ve written, the interviewer asked several questions regarding...

December 12, 2017

Arts & Faith Top 25 Films on Waking Up, Part 2

There are, arguably, many ways in which we need to wake up, hence the need...

December 11, 2017

Arts & Faith Top 25 Films on Waking Up, Part 1

“My father says almost the whole world’s asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody...

December 05, 2017

Lady Bird Ascending: Part 1

I graduated from Bellefonte Area High School in 2004. During my senior year, I indulged...

August 2017

August 29, 2017

An All Too Ghostly Ghost Story: Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Four years ago, my wife and I moved into our red brick...

May 2017

May 25, 2017

A Conversation with Van Gessel

By Mary Kenagy Mitchell Van Gessel has been Shusaku Endo’s primary English translator since the...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

Anne Fontaine’s The Innocents

After World War II devastated eastern Europe, the Red Army pushed into the countries allotted...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

To Run and Not Grow Weary, Part 2

By Jeffrey Overstreet. Maybe it was instinct that sent me back to relive the 1924...

January 24, 2017

Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea

It’s impossible to speak of Kenneth Lonergan’s film Manchester by the Sea without alluding to...

January 12, 2017

Making Contact: A Christian-Atheist Friendship, Part 2

An introduction: Decades ago, in the faraway land of Orange County, California, two young women...

January 11, 2017

Making Contact: A Christian-Atheist Friendship, Part 1

An introduction from Tania Runyan: Decades ago, in the faraway land of Orange County, California,...

December 2016

December 15, 2016

A Conversation with Scott Derrickson, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Scott Derrickson is a director whose films include The Exorcism of Emily Rose,...

December 14, 2016

A Conversation with Scott Derrickson, Part 1

Interviewed by Nick Olson Scott Derrickson is a director whose films include The Exorcism of Emily Rose,...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

In the Company of Women, Part II

By Jeffrey Overstreet Continued from yesterday. “You’re the sort of man who can’t know anyone...

August 24, 2016

In the Company of Women, Part I

By Jeffrey Overstreet In late July of 1992, Batman Returns ruled the box office. I...

March 2016

March 23, 2016

Better Call Saul

Better Call Saul, a prequel to AMC’s milestone series, Breaking Bad, further establishes co-creators Vince Gilligan...

February 2016

February 15, 2016

The Coen Brothers, Plato, and the Imagination

By Santiago Ramos Note: This review contains mild spoilers. Hail, Caesar!, the Coen Brothers’ latest...

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 13, 2016

Winners: Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Awards for 2015, Part 2

By Kenneth R. Morefield. Continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. Coninuing yesterday’s list of...

January 12, 2016

Winners: Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Film Awards for 2015, Part 1

By Kenneth R. Morefield The 2015 Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Film Awards had a decidedly...

December 2015

December 23, 2015

Repression, Oppression, Suppression: A Life of Domestic Routine

Somewhere in the middle of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, the eponymous...

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...

March 2015

March 03, 2015

The Arts and Faith Top 25 Films on Memory

By Ryan Holt For me, there is no more acute reminder of the passing of...