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November 2022

November 11, 2022

The Holy Grief of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

In superhero stories, death is often more of a temporary setback. Spider-Man was gone for...

November 04, 2022

Causeway Is All About Healing—and Some Spiritual Cleansing, Too

Causeway, Apple TV+’s new awards-season hopeful, is not a particularly religious movie. The only overt...

November 02, 2022

Finding Pain, Purpose and Prayer in Till

It was a simple prayer. It was offered with sincerity and conviction. Mamie Till just...

October 2022

October 24, 2022

Black Adam Holds Plenty of Power—and Some Original Sin

Is Black Adam a good guy or a bad guy? The answer? Yes. And while...

September 2022

September 25, 2022

The Media Doesn’t Understand Religion. And That’s Bad for All of Us

It’s a Sunday in September, and for lots of Americans, that means football. NBC’s Sunday...

September 09, 2022

The Queen, the Crown and the Reason for All Things

Queen Elizabeth II died yesterday at the age of 96. She reigned for 70 years,...

September 01, 2022

There’s a Touch of Tolkien’s Faith in The Rings of Power

Amazon’s Prime Video is set to trot out its lavish series, Lord of the Rings:...

August 2022

August 08, 2022

Luck Isn’t About Luck. It’s About Character.

It rains movies in August. The summer’s big blockbusters have come and gone, and studios...

July 2022

July 21, 2022

Thor: Love and Thunder is Quite Silly … and Quite Spiritual.

Thor: Love and Thunder is all about gods. Not God: gods. If you’ve seen it,...

June 2022

June 17, 2022

‘Stay Prayed Up’ Shows the Power of Gospel Music (and the Gospel Message, Too)

Give the doc its props: Stay Prayed Up is as good as its name. It...

May 2022

May 09, 2022

No Multiverse in No Vacancy, But It Offers a Strange, and Inspiring, Turn

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness gobbled up a whole multiverse of money this...

April 2022

April 22, 2022

The Bad Guys Comes with a Great Message. (And It’s Fun, Too.)

The Bad Guys are just the worst. The Ocean’s Eleven-like crime team is made of...

April 14, 2022

Four Lessons to Take From Father Stu

As an actor, Mark Wahlberg has been a cop and a crook, a boxer and...

March 2022

March 25, 2022

Oscar Goes to Church: Spiritual Themes Flourish in Best Picture Nominees

Some Christian critics of the entertainment industry would say that Hollywood is positively godless. But...

March 03, 2022

Yes, The Batman is Grim. But Not as Grim as You Might Think.

Sometimes, you have to wonder why anyone lives in Gotham City. Oh, it wasn’t always...

February 2022

February 28, 2022

In Cyrano, Great Love Meets the Greatest Sin: Pride.

Cyrano, the musical based on Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac, is predicated on...

February 21, 2022

In The Cursed, the Monsters Aren’t Just the Ones With Fangs

The Cursed, which rolled out to theaters this weekend, is a bloody movie. Really bloody....

February 16, 2022

Death on the Screen: What Murder Mysteries Like Death on the Nile Say About Faith

Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle is hosting a honeymoon cruise up the Nile for all her closest friends....

December 2021

December 28, 2021

Watching God’s Top 10 Movies for 2021

The movie industry didn’t return to “normal” in 2021, but it at least looked a...

December 20, 2021

‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Spins a Web of Second Chances

Spider-Man: No Way Home snared a staggering $253 million in its sticky North American...

October 2021

October 22, 2021

Mass Effect: What the Movie Mass Says About Grief and Forgiveness

Mass, opening nationally Oct. 22, isn’t always easy to watch. But then again, few worthwhile...

October 08, 2021

In No Time to Die, James Bond Finds Time to Care

James Bond is not, by tradition, a particularly loving man. Oh, he certainly is an...

October 01, 2021

The Jesus Music Hits All the Right Notes

Nothing sets you up for failure like success. We knew this, of course. The Bible...

August 2021

August 13, 2021

Four Things that Free Guy Says About Free Will (and Other Stuff, Too)

You don’t expect a lot of spiritual depth from a Ryan Reynolds comedy. But Free...

July 2021

July 30, 2021

Nine Days Reminds Us That Life Is a Gift

The ancient Greeks believed that the gates of the underworld—the land of the dead—was guarded...

July 09, 2021

Black Widow’s Quest for Redemption Might Make Her Marvel’s Best Hero

Natasha Romanoff never asked to be Black Widow. She wanted to be a butterfly;...

July 07, 2021

Summer of Soul Is a Great Doc (and Deeply Spiritual, Too)

The Summer of Soul made me smile. The documentary (the full title of which is...

June 2021

June 16, 2021

Don’t Sleep on Awake’s Spiritual Themes

Awake, Netflix’s latest sci-fi thriller featuring a very stressed-out mother (see Bird Box), is a...

June 07, 2021

New Conjuring Movie Wears Faith on Its Bloody Sleeves

The Conjuring cinematic universe—now eight films strong—is the second highest-grossing horror franchise of all time,...

May 2021

May 27, 2021

Walking the Line Between Secular and Sacred: An Interview with the Writer of Netflix’s ‘Blue Miracle’

The story behind Netflix’s Blue Miracle (starring Jimmy Gonzalez and Dennis Quaid) is almost...