When I was in college, I was involved in a decent production of Hamlet. To make it short enough for our undergraduate attention spans, the director cut it down to two hours, including intermission. What got the chop: the monologues…
My experience with Wonder Woman began in a gigantic Texas cinema on a hot summer afternoon with nothing to do. I did not come with much expectation. Two friends were meeting me there, and all three of us have excellent…
Phantom Thread is an exquisitely uncomfortable movie. It is exquisite, it is uncomfortable, and it is exquisitely uncomfortable. What is this movie about, and why is it perfect for Lent? Warning: spoilers ahead Set in 1950’s London, the film follows…
On the American indie music scene, the past ten or fifteen years have seen a rash of singer-songwriters—male, white, thirty-something—making dark, lovely, lyrical, disturbing, disaffected, and heartbreaking albums. Nothing new so far? Right. Cue Elliott Smith. But the repeated, shared…
What’s the deal with all the vampires? One thing that makes them interesting is that, unlike the also-popular zombie, far from being the frequent subject of shock-horror fare, this monster comes with a certain amount of class. In Twilight and…
The Nolan Brothers’ movie, Interstellar, is the best science fiction flick I have seen in a long time. It holds together what great science fiction always has: the fantastical, the futuristic, and the human, along with something of the supernatural.…
In Sarah Coakley’s new book, God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity’, you may not expect a chapter devoted to devotional art, following a chapter of interviews with charismatic Anglicans on prayer, to help drive a thesis on…
“Speaking in tongues” is an act, written about in the New Testament and experienced by Christians to the present day, in which the Spirit gives someone to say more than she knows, in a language she doesn’t particularly understand as…
I am often bothered by the word “submission.” This can be in reference to human beings’ relation to God, ecclesial leadership, and even, the Son’s relationship to the Father. This can happen when the term is used in ways that…