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August 2025

August 19, 2025

Ratatouille and Calling

The best of us have, at times, felt like we belong in spaces that do...

July 2025

July 01, 2025

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Childlike Innocence

I'm not sure what specifically is driving me to write about this film this week....

October 2024

October 15, 2024

Your Name and Divinity

The concept of divine destiny or foreordination can be a highly contested one in religious...

September 2024

September 17, 2024

Donnie Darko and Divinity

Confession: I still don't get the ending of Donnie Darko ... but I do know...

September 10, 2024

Terminator 2 Judgment Day and Purpose

I've heard that there's a new Terminator anime on Netflix. I may give it a...

April 2024

April 09, 2024

Onward and Love

One of the most human of feelings is missing something that you can never have,...

April 02, 2024

Ikiru and Heaven

I consider myself relatively lucky in the way of work. Overall, I have been fortunate...

February 2024

February 13, 2024

Avatar the Last Airbender and Sacrifice

Drawing out the spiritual application of any given text is always an interesting endeavor because...

April 2023

April 04, 2023

Waking Life and Truth

Today we're going to do something a little different and venture more into something a...

January 2023

January 10, 2023

Passengers and the Heavenly Life

As a film enthusiast, there's a little game I like to play called "which movies...

December 2022

December 27, 2022

Toy Story 2 and Immortality

The prospect of immortality, eternal life, or some kind of existence beyond mortal life can...

November 2022

November 29, 2022

The Way, Way Back and Worth

I'm not really a winter person, which makes the coming months something of an...

November 15, 2022

Enchanted and Faith in a Fallen World

A few weeks back when I talked about Scream, I mentioned that self-aware movies are...

October 2022

October 06, 2022

Stand By Me and Love’s Lasting Mark

I remember an experience I had in 9th grade P.E. This was the rare class...

August 2022

August 30, 2022

How to Train Your Dragon and Kindness as Strength

In the years leading up to Christ's birth, the intellectuals of the day anticipated the...

August 02, 2022

Moulin Rouge! and Freedom

When we talked about Chicago, I noted how that film displays the allure of sin...

July 2022

July 19, 2022

Moana and Divine Intervention

As I slowly but surely make my way through gleaning the religious metaphors across every...

May 2022

May 31, 2022

Jurassic Park and True Godliness

Well, Jurassic World: Dominion comes out really soon, so naturally I've been thinking about the...

April 2022

April 26, 2022

“IT” and Strength through Faith

In my piece on "Black Swan," I confessed that growing up, R-rated films were a...

January 2022

January 04, 2022

Titanic and Heaven

There's a controversy at the heart of the James Cameron 1997 epic, "Titanic," that has...

November 2021

November 18, 2021

Avatar and Spiritual Awakening

In John Chapter 3, Jesus is instructing Nicodemus how to inherit eternal life, and his...

September 2021

September 14, 2021

Pokemon and The Glory of Creation

Today's post was actually inspired by a meme I saw from a Pokemon page I...

June 2021

June 19, 2021

Arrival as a Glimpse into Godhood

[If you haven't seen the film Denis Villeneuve's 2016 film, Arrival, be forewarned that the...

June 01, 2021

Pan’s Labyrinth and Belief

Functionally, scriptures and fairy tales serve very similar purposes. Both tell coded stories that impart...