About a decade ago, in another place, another time, I met with the rector at the Episcopal church I was attending. “It’s just hard to motivate yourself to go to work,” I said, “when you …

I thought I was going to get away without having to write anything about Alex Kendrick’s Courageous, a film which is admittedly hard for me to be fair to at least in part because I’m …

In the television show Cosmos astronomer Carl Sagan once famously opined that “to truly make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
I suppose a Christian corollary would be that to truly …

One in four.
In an age of information glut, the power of certain numbers lies not in their ability to shock us but in their ability to slide by, barely making an impression.
One in four women …

Author’s note–this isn’t a review of the film, really. It’s a meditation spurred by seeing the film. If a critical judgment is implied by the nature of the meditation…c’est la vie. If some of my …

With the recent success of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds and last year’s Best Picture nomination for Stephen Daldry’s The Reader, there has been a resurgence of discussion surrounding how Hollywood depicts World War II in …