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March 2024

March 01, 2024

‘Dune: Part Two’ Asks Explosive Questions About Religion

Dune: Part Two is out in theaters today, and it’s pretty spectacular. Sure, the film...

December 2023

December 28, 2023

Watching God’s Top 10 Movies of 2023

Even though we’ve got just a few more days left of 2023, it feels as...

December 13, 2023

New Doc ‘The Mission’ Asks Important Questions About Calling

We hear a lot about our “calling” in evangelical circles. We look in the Bible...

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,...

April 2021

April 05, 2021

The Unholy is Creepy, But Suffers From a Fatal Flaw

Christian entertainment blooms this time of year. In the space between Palm Sunday and Easter,...

April 20, 2020

‘Stories are What Get Us Through Hard Times.’ An Interview With ‘The Quarry’ Director Scott Teems

It’s been a strange year for the movie industry, obviously. But while blockbusters have all...

April 03, 2020

Religion is a Part of The Other Lamb. A Bad, Baaaaad Part

With most theaters closed, The Other Lamb—an art-house horror film—landed on various video-on-demand services...

February 2020

February 16, 2020

Doc ‘We Believe in Dinosaurs’ Highlights America’s Faith/Science Divide

I’m no scientist, but I do like science. I’m no pastor, but I do love...

April 2019

April 16, 2019

In The Curse of La Llorona, ‘The Only Way You Can Combat Darkness is With Light.’

I’ve written plenty about the spiritual dichotomy we find in horror movies. For lots of...

December 2018

December 10, 2018

And the Most Religious Superhero Movie of the Year is … Deadpool 2?

Deadpool fans were treated to a new poster last week, right in advance of the...

October 2018

October 30, 2018

‘To Live Life in Radical Amazement’: An Interview with Behold the Earth Director David Conover

We live in some crazy times. In the United States, we may be as divided...

September 2018

September 12, 2018

Mandy is the Craziest Movie of the Year. (Naturally, It Stars Nic Cage)

Say what you will about Nicolas Cage. But when he takes a role, he's all...

September 06, 2018

Featurette: Fear and Faith in The Nun

I watched The Nun last night. Very gothic, pretty scary and quite interesting from a...

June 2018

June 04, 2018

The Despair, Hope and Holy Activism of First Reformed

Can God forgive us? Michael, a despairing environmental activist, asks this of Rev. Toller in...

March 2018

March 02, 2018

The Shape of Water is Just Pretty Good … Except for One Beautiful Thing

The Oscars are practically upon us, and The Shape of Water leads the pack with...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

Living Biblically Creator Patrick Walsh Talks About Family, Faith and His Spiritual Sitcom

Television sitcoms want you to like them. So historically, half-hour comedies have avoided the same...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

Why Luke Skywalker is a Perfect Spiritual Symbol For Our Times

It's not easy being Luke Skywalker. The one-time fresh-faced lad from Tatooine has been kidnapped...

November 2017

November 05, 2017

How ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Connects With Christian Faith in Four Freaky Ways

Let's not pretend that Thor: Ragnarok is some profound theological declaration. It's a superhero movie,...

August 2017

August 04, 2017

The Great Eight: The Summer’s Best Movies

A calendar tells us that summer runs from June 21 to September 21. Most of...

May 2017

May 22, 2017

Great Scott! Three Fascinating Religious Characters in Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant

Director Ridley Scott hates religion, or so he says. He told Esquire Magazine that it...

May 18, 2017

Alien: Covenant is Super-Spiritual. Just Look at the Poster

Ridley Scott's latest Alien movie, Alien: Covenant, is officially hitting American theaters tomorrow. And it...

May 15, 2017

God Save the King: 5 Nods to Religion in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword isn't exactly Oscarbait. Director Guy Ritchie is known for...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

4 Great, Tough Lessons I Learned From Silence

Silence, Martin Scorsese’s beautiful, difficult and overlooked masterpiece on faith, is out on Blu-Ray and...

January 2017

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 20, 2017

The Story of God: Finding Heaven in Hell

What is heaven? What is hell? And how do they impact how we live right...

January 13, 2017

The Story of God: Are We All Chosen?

National Geographic’s fascinating series The Story of God With Morgan Freeman kicks off its second...

December 2016

December 17, 2016

Rogue One’s Heroes Aren’t so Heroic, and That’s a Good Thing

I was a scrawny, buck-toothed –year-old when I first saw the first Star Wars movie—known...

October 2016

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...