In this interview, Andy Crouch discusses the concepts from his latest book, “Culture Making,” especially in the context of the U.S. presidential election.

In this poem, Marjorie Maddox considers the potential for salvation in catastrophe when we open our eyes to change.

(Ed. Note: Originally published at Film-Think.) I am baffled that Mary was not distributed in conjunction to either The Passion of the Christ or The Da Vinci Code hysteria after it played to acclaim at the Venice 2005 festival, even taking the SIGNIS award there. It would have been a helpful point of reference for either […]

(Ed. Note: Originally published at Film-Think.)   I have always been troubled by Slacker, as it is been the only Linklater I haven’t been able to enjoy immediately. It is an hour and a half of disconnected dialogue, each scene focused on a conversation or monologue that ends as the character from the upcoming scene appears […]

In this interview, Scott Bader-Saye discusses the relationship between the American culture of fear and the recent financial collapse of Wall Street.

Exploration of a definition for worship and justice.

In this interview, Charles Taylor discusses how his findings as part of the Quebec Commission square with the analysis of contemporary society set forth in “A Secular Age,” addressing such topics as secularism, accommodation, Islamophobia, and the politics of mobilization.

Part I of the Taylor/Kuipers interview can be found here. Part II of the Taylor/Kuipers interview can be found here.

In this interview, Charles Taylor discusses how his findings as part of the Quebec Commission square with the analysis of contemporary society set forth in “A Secular Age,” addressing such topics as secularism, accommodation, Islamophobia, and the politics of mobilization.

(Ed. Note: Originally published at Film-Think) The thrill of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and what ultimately makes it a seminal film of modern American spirituality, is the way it drills down through religious experience and finds a character both mythic and contemporary. He is mythic in the sense that his experience is common – […]