David A. Garner

The Briefing 6.26.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. The Post and Courier further personalizes last week’s tragedy in Charleston: People talk and visit and sit in white fold-out chairs at round tables with white tablecloths set out across […]

Samantha Curley

Welcome To Earth

How a documentary film that simulates an encounter with an alien life form may be challenging to our theological sensibilities.

David A. Garner

The Briefing 6.19.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. One of J. Louis Martyn’s former students reflects on his life: The originality of his work will surely never cease to gain admirers. His unique voice was unmistakable and could […]

Nathan Booth

To Inspire Love: Death on the Nile (John Guillermin, 1978)

This is the second  in a (long-delayed, alas!) series of posts chronicling the fortunes of Agatha Christie on film from 1974-1988. Spoilers are not only expected, but required, and I offer them with no apology. With the success of Murder on the Orient Express, it was only a matter of time before the cinema tried […]

George T. Anderson

Trauma and the Technology of Participation

As technological advance sells users on increasing personal power and protection from trauma, Christians must consider the idolatrous potential of buying in.

David A. Garner

The Briefing 6.11.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week.   The ongoing quest for musical convenience often comes with a tradeoff: There’s not even a single standard playlist format to make switching services easier, like the old .m3u playlist files […]

David A. Garner

The Briefing 6.5.15

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Kevin Vanhoozer blends music and creativity with theology: Flush from the success of the mission, he decided, “I don’t have time to apply to seminaries, I want them to apply […]