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April 2017

April 16, 2017

He is Risen Indeed

On Easter, my second father was actually dying.

March 2017

March 23, 2017

Basketball Belief: How the 16 Teams Left in March Madness Reflect Spirituality

No more Friars. No more Demon Deacons. Even those hated Blue Devils are gone. The...

March 16, 2017

3 Ways Christianity Sneaks Into Beauty and the Beast (Despite that ‘Gay Moment’)

I'm pretty sure that Bill Condon wishes he had just kept his mouth shut. Condon,...

March 10, 2017

Christianity and Kong: What Hollywood’s Biggest Ape Has in Common With The World’s Largest Religion

We can't ignore the 800-ton gorilla in the room. Kong: Skull Island stomps into theaters...

March 06, 2017

Logan is a Christian Fable Disguised as a Superhero Story

Logan's a rough ride—raw and bloody and dark. And it's the best superhero film...

March 03, 2017

CNN Finds a Pretty Good Show in Finding Jesus

If you took each hour-long episode of CNN's Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact Forgery and distilled...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

CNN Examines Historical Christianity in Finding Jesus

There's been a lot of talk about "fake news" lately. Even real news gets called...

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Why Silence Deserved Oscar’s Love

When Academy Award nominees earlier this week, plenty of Oscar's snubs made headlines. No Amy...

January 25, 2017

The Story of God: Is There Anybody Out There?

For two seasons, National Geographic's The Story of God With Morgan Freeman has taken us...

January 05, 2017

Ha La Lu Land: How Christianity is Like a Classic Hollywood Musical

If you’ve seen my rundown of the year’s best films, you’ll know I really, really...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

You Picked What?! Watching God’s Best Movies of 2016

I love reading year-end lists. I'm not such a big fan of writing them. Hey,...

December 12, 2016

The Best Scene in Manchester By the Sea is Funny, Painful and Spiritual

Grief challenges us in a way nothing else can. When we love and lose someone,...

December 02, 2016

A Game About Grief and God Wins Major Award

That Dragon, Cancer was never meant to be the next big video game franchise. You don't...

November 2016

November 07, 2016

Doctor Strange Is The Most Religious Superhero Movie Ever

Superheroes have always been religious. But Marvel's great, trippy new movie Doctor Strange takes superhero...

November 04, 2016

Hacksaw Ridge is Insanely Bloody. Here’s Why.

Christianity is bloody. The whole thing started with an execution. If the early Christians had...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

What Makes The Innocents So Frightening … and So Perfect for Halloween

It amazes me how many children show up in horror movies they're not allowed to...

October 19, 2016

We’re All Fixer Uppers

A confession: My wife and I watch HGTV’s Fixer Uppers, starring Chip and Joanna Gaines,...

October 17, 2016

Why Is Everyone Scared of Clowns?

We're all being attacked by clowns. People across the United States say they're seeing red-nosed,...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

What the Magnificent Seven Says About American Faith

The Magnificent Seven begins in a church. It ends in a church. And even though...

September 23, 2016

Fox’s The Exorcist is More About God than The Devil. Here’s Why.

You just can't keep a bad demonic force down, I guess. It's been 45 years...

September 07, 2016

How Logical Spock Gives Us a Surprising Example of Spirituality

The starship Enterprise may reportedly have plied the galaxy in the 23rd century, but it...

August 2016

August 30, 2016

When Gene Wilder Played God (in a Chocolate Factory)

Gene Wilder, who died Aug. 29 at the age of 83, was not a particularly...

August 05, 2016

The Little Prince is a Little Magical

We're in the shaggiest stretch of the dog days of summer, and the theaters are full...

July 2016

July 08, 2016

Captain Fantastic: The Anti-Christian Christian Movie

Captain Fantastic, a little indie film out today, is a moving family parable about hippie...

June 2016

June 27, 2016

Matthew McConaughey Gets Spiritual in Free State of Jones

Free State of Jones is not technically a Christian movie, but it might as well...

June 09, 2016

‘We Have a Calling:’ Conjuring 2 Writers Talk About Where Faith and Fright Meet

Some Christians believe that believers shouldn’t even watch horror films, much less write them. Too...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

U2’s Bono on Why Christians Need to Get Honest About Art

Bono, lead singer for U2, and Eugene Peterson, author of The Message contemporary Bible translation,...

April 21, 2016

The Faith of Harriet Tubman, New Face of the 20 Dollar Bill

Amongst all the remarkable items in the Smithsonian's collections—from the Hope Diamond to the Spirit...

April 17, 2016

The Terrible, Awful, No-Good Generosity of ‘The Lady in the Van’

In an episode NBC’s Friends—“The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS”—sage theosophist Joey Tribbiani argues that...

April 15, 2016

That Dragon, Cancer Isn’t a Game: It’s a Prayer

The definitive scene in That Dragon, Cancer, is its most frustrating. I'm in a hospital...