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April 2016

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...

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...

April 04, 2016

God’s Not Dead 2: The Wrong Fight

God's Not Dead 2, the predictably named sequel to 2014's surprise hit God's Not Dead,...

March 2016

March 26, 2016

There’s a Reason Why Batman v Superman Was Released Easter Weekend

I wanted to like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. I really did. The first...

March 13, 2016

Knight of Cups: The Christian Visions of Terrence Malick

We’re in the midst of a cascade of Christian movies right now. Risen. The Young...

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...

December 11, 2015

In the Heart of the Sea, in the Eye of God

In the Heart of the Sea gets under your skin. It’s hard for movies to...

December 02, 2015

Beautiful Darkness: An Interview With William Riead, Director of The Letters

Mother Teresa isn't a saint. Not yet officially, at any rate. But for many of...

October 2015

October 11, 2015

Should Christians Watch Horror Movies?

October is the season for scary movies. So says Redbox, anyway. The movie rental company polled...

September 2015

September 04, 2015

A Walk in the Woods and the Spiritual Pilgrimage

A Walk in the Woods is about two oldsters (played by the suitably-but-gracefully aged Robert...

July 2015

July 10, 2015

To Be Or Not To Be? That’s the Question for the Christian Movie Genre

"Have you seen God's Not Dead yet?" An elderly gentleman at my gym asks me...

June 2015

June 01, 2015

San Andreas: How Jesus and The Rock Look Alike (If You Squint a Little)

San Andreas is exactly the movie you'd expect it to be. There are no unexpected...

May 2015

May 11, 2015

Noble Works

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

April 2015

April 27, 2015

How Good, Evil and Faith Intersect at the Aurora Shooting Trial

The Dark Knight Rises, the most anticipated movie of the year, was opening at midnight...

March 2015

March 16, 2015

Television Gets Religion

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

March 03, 2015

God on the Small Screen: Last Man on Earth and House of Cards

I think Google is trying to get me to de-convert. It seems that way, at...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

Did the Academy Snub Faith? Look a Little Closer.

Oscar doesn’t like religion. That’s what some are saying, anyway. Even though 2014 was supposed...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Big Hero 6: Binary Love

Disney has given us some pretty unlikely heroes: A wooden marionette; a flying elephant; a...

January 20, 2015

A Literary Digression

As you might expect of a movie critic, I watch a lot of movies. Denver...

January 16, 2015

Oscars Missed a Good One in Calvary

Nominations for the Academy Awards came out yesterday morning. Among the eight Best Picture nominees,...

January 12, 2015

Selma: The Fearsome Power of Faith

The late Christopher Hitchens once wrote a book called God is Not Great: How Religion...

December 2014

December 03, 2014

Exodus: Gods and Kids

I haven’t seen Exodus: Gods and Kings yet. I’m going to see it tonight, actually,...

November 2014

November 12, 2014

Seeing God (In Bill Murray’s Banana Peels)

I'm not exactly sure when Bill Murray went from being wackily eccentric to a national...