Surfing the Web: Our Contemporary Visual (il)Literacy
At a recent Society for the Study of Theology conference in Manchester, Society President and Professor David Brown stated plainly the kind of grim diagnosis of contemporary…
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American Sniper: Exaggerated Superheroes and the Reality of Violence
After bellowing his famous “Freedom!” cry, William Wallace dies following a gruesome series of physical and emotional tortures. The elderly Private Ryan breaks down…
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Books: A Poem by Timothy E.G. Bartel
Books There is a feeling just before you read the next book that will fill a blank in your thoughts, or form the…
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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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Bowing Toward Beauty
One of the more subtle assumptions being made today within theology is the belief that anyone who lacks an appreciation for beauty must be in…
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Aesthetics as Concealment [and]/or Disclosure
Following up an earlier post, “The Imagination between Beauty and Goodness,” in which I discussed how the imagination might help bring the values of beauty and…
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The Gritty Realism of Thomas Hardy
It is a commonly held opinion that Thomas Hardy, the prolific Victorian poet and novelist, is a pessimist. This perspective is documented well in a…
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Dance, Transcendence and Moments of Recovery
When I moved to California about three years ago, I could hear neither myself nor God. Just two weeks prior, my husband and I…
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On Interstellar and Fr. William Lynch, S.J.
In Christopher Nolan’s newest eye- and mind-bending space odyssey, Interstellar, there is plenty of action but also much to aid in silent contemplation. Nolan’s…
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