Contrary to the pervasive “sacred-secular” dichotomy that infects many Christians’ view of the world of “ordinary” work, the Bible has a comprehensive and positive understanding of God’s involvement in the public arena, from creation to new creation, providing perspectives that should govern our ethical, missional, and pastoral engagement with it.
A reflection on the life of Alex Chilton, one of the most influential and yet unknown legends of rock music.
A review that finds joy in the creative crises and experimentation of the ALL DELIGHTED PEOPLE EP, the recent EP from Sufjan Stevens.
In this conversation, distinguished professors James K. A. Smith and James Davison Hunter discuss Hunter’s newest book, TO CHANGE THE WORLD.
“Get low. I don’t even know what that means. I guess it means to get low for Jesus before it’s time. Keep above the ground before you go below the ground.”
Robert Duvall
An essay that uses two recent Seattle Art Museum exhibits to compare Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, and Kurt Cobain and to reflect on the nature of celebrity.
Earlier this week, David Gelernter posted a really good article over at Big Questions Online that caught my attention. It did so because I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine, who works as an aerodynamicist for a major NASCAR team, that centered on the relationship of entropy to eschatology. That is, if […]
Well, I managed to miss this fantastic essay last week. But I am glad for that, as I encountered it after just stumbling across Christian Lorentzen’s crucifixion of Wes Anderson as hipster messiah. I often recall with glee the end of The Life Aquatic, in which our holy moment becomes curated by none other than […]
n+1 magazine has periodically published the kind of film criticism that meets the catchy, thoughtful standard of the magazine. (Such as this excellent review of two recent books on Cahiers du Cinema/the French New Wave.) It looks like they will now be publishing a section dedicated to film criticism on a more regular basis. They […]