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March 2017

March 09, 2017

The Zookeeper’s Wife Looks Intense

It's going to be quite the March at the movies. Seems like the month is...

February 2017

February 06, 2017

Logan Was the Super Bowl’s Best Commercial, Claws Down

I dig superheroes, but I've never been a huge X-Men guy. I never read the...

January 2017

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 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...

July 2016

July 24, 2016

Sneak Peek for ‘Born This Way,’ A&E’s Inspirational Show on Down Syndrome

God doesn’t make mistakes. It’s one of Christianity’s favorite clichés. We go to it when...

May 2016

May 03, 2016

Are Miracles Real? Just Look Around.

The final episode of National Geographic's The Story of God series (airing May 8), "The...

April 2016

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...

February 2016

February 15, 2016

To Kill or Not To Kill? That is the Question For Superheroes

Deadpool, the latest cinematic superhero movie from Marvel, opened big this weekend, banking around $135...

January 2016

January 20, 2016

The Revenant: Looking For a Holier Ghost

John Fitzgerald says that God is a squirrel. That’s what a buddy told him, at...

November 2015

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...

October 2015

October 26, 2015

This May Be the Year’s Best Movie—And It’s Weirdly Christian

War Room is this year's Christian smash. Its core evangelical audience has helped the Kendrick...

October 02, 2015

The Martian and Sci-Fi’s Search for Salvation

Mars has never been a particularly welcoming place. From H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds...

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...

August 05, 2015

The 33: A Miner Miracle

Five years ago today (Aug. 5), 33 Chilean miners were trapped nearly a half a...

May 2015

May 18, 2015

Mad Max and the Furious Road to Redemption

We Christians talk a lot about our broken world. And let me tell you, worlds...

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 30, 2015

Are the Avengers Religious?

Superhero stories often have religious oomph to them. It's only natural, really: You're dealing with...

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...

April 17, 2015

Just What Is CW’s The Messengers Trying to Say?

I used to dread reviewing shows from The CW. Every new program seemed like pap...

March 2015

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...

January 2015

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 19, 2014

Finding Christmas Light in Dark Movies

The winter solstice—the darkest day of the year—is Sunday, and I think most of us...

December 17, 2014

Thank Goodness We Can Watch ‘The Interview.’ (Whether We Should is Another Matter.)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, was released today. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay...

November 2014

November 24, 2014

Mockingjay – Part 1: Panem, Circuses and Christ

The Capitol of Panem may look all sleek and modern. But when you really examine...

November 05, 2014

Maleficent: Horns, Wings and a Fractured Fairy

According to Augustine and a whole lot of subsequent theologians, evil isn’t really a “thing.”...

October 2014

October 24, 2014

Birdman: Finding a Life of Flighty Purpose

It's been a week since I saw Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue...

October 15, 2014

Hearts and Souls in the Walking Dead Premiere

I know, I know. I wrote a short Walking Dead blog last week. But I...

October 08, 2014

Living Like the Dead

Ran across a pretty terrific post in Christ and Pop Culture today—a piece about AMC's...