‘Now cracks a noble heart’: Hamlet and Political Hope
When I was in college, I was involved in a decent production of Hamlet. To make it short enough for our undergraduate attention spans,…
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Wonder Woman and Women in Ministry
My experience with Wonder Woman began in a gigantic Texas cinema on a hot summer afternoon with nothing to do. I did not come…
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Why Phantom Thread Is a Perfect Movie for Lent
Phantom Thread is an exquisitely uncomfortable movie. It is exquisite, it is uncomfortable, and it is exquisitely uncomfortable. What is this movie about, and…
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Minstrels of Infirmity: Ex-Christian American Singer-Songwriter Dudes and Whether or Not They Help the Church
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,…
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Laughing at the Devil: The Not-So-Cool Vampire as Theological Boon
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…
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Salvation by No “Other”: The Disappointment of Interstellar
The Nolan Brothers’ movie, Interstellar, is the best science fiction flick I have seen in a long time. It holds together what great science…
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Confessional Theology and Craig Thompson’s Blankets
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,…
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Tongues, Art, and St. Paul’s Rules of Order: A Few Suggestions
“Speaking in tongues” is an act, written about in the New Testament and experienced by Christians to the present day, in which the Spirit…
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“Lovely in Limbs”: What a Tap Dancer Taught Me about Obedience
I am often bothered by the word “submission.” This can be in reference to human beings’ relation to God, ecclesial leadership, and even, the…
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