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July 2025

July 04, 2025

What to read on the 4th of July

Okay, maybe you won't be reading all of these books today. (If it weren't for ebooks you...

July 01, 2025

Grimke on the Christian Life

Crossway's "on the Christian life" series continues to be excellent with the addition of Drew...

June 2025

June 27, 2025

Horror works for everything

This is the final part of a series on the cultural moment of horror I've...

June 24, 2025

Jack Ryan at 41

Okay, he's not really 41 (the internet tells me he was born in 1950, so...

June 17, 2025

Nicaea for today

What do you believe? That can be a surprisingly hard question if it's sprung on...

June 13, 2025

Anyone can do it

This is the fifth part of a series on the cultural moment of horror Horror...

June 06, 2025

Choose your own length

This is the fourth part of a series on the cultural moment of horror Horror...

June 03, 2025

Keller on the Christian Life

Let's start with some confusion. The book under review here is called Tim Keller on the...

May 2025

May 30, 2025

The Comfort of Horror

This is the third part of a series on the cultural moment of horror Horror...

May 27, 2025

Does Clarkson farm?

Is Jeremy Clarkson Really a Farmer? Clarkson's Farm is back for its fourth season, and...

May 23, 2025

Cheap Thrills

This is the second part of a series on horror’s cultural moment As we continue to...

May 20, 2025

A Light in the City

When I was growing up in the rural West, Washington DC was the home of...

May 16, 2025

The World is a Horror Story

This is the second part of a series on horror's cultural moment Why is horror...

May 13, 2025

Mixed Message Harold

Harold and the Purple Crayon (Directed by Carlos Saldhana) is an excellent adaptation of the book--at...

May 09, 2025

Living in a Terrifying World

Hollywood has always kept up a steady trickle of horror films of varying qualities for...

May 06, 2025

All creation cries out

Children's books have the option (usually not available to adult or YA novels) of leaning...

April 2025

April 29, 2025

Building for the wrong reasons

How do we view ourselves and how does that match up to reality? That's actually...

March 2025

March 04, 2025

John Owen (not) for everyone

I'm normally something of a completist with it comes to reading classic works. Certainly abridgements...

February 2025

February 28, 2025

Future of Media 7: Animation

As we continue to predict what the future of media will look like in our...

February 25, 2025

Reacher Returns

Amazon has released the first three episodes of Reacher, and as with past seasons and versions,...

February 18, 2025

SNL @ 50

I have never lived in an America without Saturday Night Live, and while my parents technically...

February 14, 2025

The Future of Media 5: Genre-Specific Fiction

As we continue to think about the future of media in a fragmented world, there...

February 07, 2025

The Future of Media 4: Television

This series thinking about the future of media is wide ranging, as evidenced by the...

January 2025

January 24, 2025

The Future of Media 2: Boutique Streaming Services

As we continue to think about what the future holds for media, I think it's...

January 17, 2025

The Future of Media 1: Microbudgets

As the media landscape changes, one thing that is already underway is the rise of...

January 10, 2025

The future of media?

The landscape of film--both television and the movies--has been changing in the past twenty years....

May 2024

May 16, 2024

Tradition Reigns at the ACM Awards

The Academy of Country Music Awards show last night on Amazon was a pageant of...

April 2024

April 05, 2024

Monsieur Spade doesn’t solve the case

While it has been a second since I've read The Maltese Falcon or seen the movie, I...

March 2024

March 29, 2024

Who ya gonna call?

I started to write that the Ghostbusters franchise has had only mixed success--both Ghostbusters 2 and Ghostbusters:...

March 22, 2024

Almost Lovecraftian in the DCU

Given what the DC world has done with Batman and the Joker's relationship (reason and...