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April 2016

April 12, 2016

National Geographic Asks, Can We Ever Know God? Answer: Sorta

"What is your concept of God?" I was in high school when I was first...

March 2016

March 16, 2016

Why Of Kings and Prophets Failed with Faith-Based America

ABC’s Of Kings and Prophets (the second episode of which aired last night) was supposed...

March 09, 2016

The Young Messiah: Waking Up

When do we become ourselves? When do we realize who we are? For most of...

February 2016

February 21, 2016

It’s not just Jesus who rises again in Risen: It’s Christian filmmaking.

Jesus’ death and resurrection has been dramatized in countless movies—from 1927’s The King of Kings...

February 05, 2016

The Quiet Faith of Peyton Manning

This blog is about looking for God in entertainment, so it's only right we mention...

February 01, 2016

Sundance Hit Birth of a Nation Reportedly Shows Complex Christianity

The Birth of a Nation won the top two honors at the Sundance Film Festival...

January 2016

January 11, 2016

The Real Soldiers Depicted in the New Film ’13 Hours’ Were Driven by One Thing: Faith

Faith comes easier when everything else is hard. Mark "Oz" Geist, Kris "Tanto" Paronto and...

January 04, 2016

The Hateful Eight: Nothing But the Blood

Quentin Tarantino frustrates the snot out of me. He is, unquestionably, a master craftsman. He...

December 2015

December 18, 2015

Is Spoiling a Sin?

Jim McDermott doesn't want me, or you, or anyone to tell him about Star Wars...

November 2015

November 19, 2015

A Prayer of Peace in an Age of Rage

I just watched a movie called The Letters, a biopic on the ministry of Mother...

November 13, 2015

Fantasia is Disney’s Most Spiritual Movie

Disney movies are rarely explicitly spiritual. Though Disney was a practicing Protestant and spoke often...

November 11, 2015

Spotlight: The Importance of Being Honest

“Everything in your life is public. There are no secrets. Everything you say, everything you...

November 09, 2015

What’s America’s Favorite Pastime? Religion.

The United States is growing more secular. According to data released earlier this month by...

October 2015

October 21, 2015

Thinking Inside the Box: How Modern Horror Movies Echo the Scary Stories of the Bible

There's a box in front of you—about the size of a shoebox, black and plain,...

October 08, 2015

Does God Want You to Do Great Things? Phil Vischer De-Disneys a Popular Myth in Kids’ Entertainment

Phil Vischer has always been one of my favorite storytellers. My kids drew up watching...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

The Walk: A High-Wire Act That’s Not About Faith (But Sort of Is)

When I was youngish, a friend of mine and I went to check out the...

September 24, 2015

Sorry, Francis Critics: Faith is Inherently Political

I typically deal with entertainment here at the Watching God blog, but its mission extends...

August 2015

August 17, 2015

The Poignant Wisdom of Stephen Colbert

GQ features former-fake-conservative-blowhard-turned-Late-Show-host Stephen Colbert in its newest issue. And Joel Lovell's cover story, "The...

May 2015

May 15, 2015

The Gospel According to B.B. King

Legendary blues artist B.B. King died last night at the age of 89. King's influence...

May 11, 2015

Noble Works

I've spent lots of time talking about superheroes lately—their their choices, their longings, their guilt,...

May 04, 2015

Age of Ultron May Be the Most Spiritual Superhero Movie Yet

Avengers: Age of Ultron has been out for, oh, about 90 seconds, and already you’re...

April 2015

April 03, 2015

God Spoils the Ending

It’s Good Friday, the day Christians commemorate Jesus’ crucifixion and death. It’s a strange day...

March 2015

March 29, 2015

Burning Bush 2.0: Two-Hundred Pages of Pop Profundity

I just got a box of books Friday. Not just of any book, but my...

March 23, 2015

The Apostles are Like The Avengers. (Just Not As Ripped.)

Yeah, it was only a matter of time before this happened. Nothing like an Avengers

March 20, 2015

G.K. Chesterton: The Sinner Who Might Be a Saint

There is a move afoot to have G. K. Chesterton canonized as a Catholic saint....

March 16, 2015

Television Gets Religion

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a little piece on Netflix' House of Cards...

October 2014

October 13, 2014

Putting Down the Pickets

The season finale of Cartoon Network's Black Jesus aired a few days ago Oct. 9,...