All these years later, in the context of a second Trump presidency, I’m thinking again about C. S. Lewis and how his words might reflect our age.

Content that was once reserved for erotica is now in much of mainstream romance.

Are there any costs or downsides to encouraging the use of generative AI to create music, even remixes and covers?

Christopher Nolan's movie gives the viewer the opportunity to envision ethical hospitality and reimagine it in a contemporary context.

We need to admit that apart from God’s grace, to some degree we are all Leonard Shelby.

It was part of Dolly’s gift, both as a singer and a songwriter, to make her songs sound effortless—yet they were anything but.

If God is truly our Father, then I do not have to run from him with my doubts. I can run to him.

Alice Rohrwacher's film is a hypnotic portrait of a Romantic soul searching for transcendence in a world evaporated of it.

American Christians should follow the example of Odysseus’s hosts and love our immigrant neighbors.

Kane Parsons' horror hit exposes the fundamental inhumanity inherent in the modern American experience.

Deltarune continually distinguishes between an appointed end and the genuinely meaningful decisions made along the way.

Christopher Nolan offers a gentler, if no less provocative, exploration of humanity at the end of its scientific abilities.

A personal brand should be a byproduct of ministry, but too many worship leaders hope that ministry is a byproduct of brand.

Why does this story continue to appeal to us? What does this latest version say about both the filmmaker and us? Nolan’s Odyssey gives us one man’s journey; what we need, though, is not just an adapta...

Gina Dalfonzo's new book considers how flawed movie characters can teach us about our own fallen natures.

Alex Garland's 2018 sci-fi/horror film reminds us that the world contains powers that refute our modern rationality.

ALT: Natalie Portman in Annihilation

Remove enough friction and you don’t have a more efficient formation process. You have no formation process. You have content delivery.

The whole world coming together proved even more beautiful than the beautiful game itself.

The speed of AI's advancement currently outpaces our ability to describe and discuss its impact.

Burke’s novel pulls the psychological and physical curtain back to reveal where the promise of a simpler life falls short.

Why do so many of us still desperately want to believe in Michael Jackson?

You don't wait for institutions to become trustworthy, or people to become good, or the city to become clean before deciding whether it's worth fighting for.

Lamar’s music is a battlefield of competing theologies embedded in the dissonance of lived experience.

Whether pastors or politicians, average Jo(nah)s or communities as a whole, we must move from being self-absorbed to being self-abnegating.

David Lowery’s Arthurian tale reveals that humanity’s rational mastery over the earth is a self-satisfied illusion.

Want to know what questions haunt our society? Ask horror.

The Disney superhero series can help us appreciate the brazenness of Christ’s grace.

The way we speak to others is just as important as the beliefs and ideas we hold.

Mother Mary declares that the modern age is not so impervious to the spiritual as it would like to think.

If one overarching theme can be discerned in such a variegated collection, it’s this: No abortion takes place in a void.

The game assumes the audience already understands the dangers built into the Bond archetype, and then it moves beyond them.

Part of what makes the Cobra Kai series so great is how it shows Johnny and Kreese’s transition into heroes.

Learning a foreign language, and making consistent efforts to communicate with its native speakers, cultivates godly maturity.

Bryan Johnson is an extreme example of body/mind duality, and his religious commitment to biological health should be heeded as a warning.

The gospel is woven so deeply into the fabric of this tale that it preached to me.

EDM allows young people to lay down pretense and come clean about their desires.

Would we really be so quick to throw away our status and privilege for a life of hardship, struggle, and near-certain death? Andor’s Perrin has lost nothing. Except his soul

It’s by Christ's death that we can love our enemies, seek peace with those that want to harm us, and refuse to take vengeance when we are wronged.

The appeal of the multiverse metaphor in everyday conversation is that it functions as an anaesthetic for regret and makes decisions feel less weighty.

Wilson's songs trace the long, difficult movement where inheritance becomes not just a burden but a belonging.

Some of the most glorious expressions of goodness and beauty can be found in art that has no direct affiliation with Christianity.

Courtney Ellis's careful observations of nature teach her, and us, to find peace during the hardest transitions.

Supergiant's acclaimed game serves as fertile ground on which to engage with the concept of the imago Dei, a historically misunderstood doctrine of Christianity.