David A. Garner

The Briefing: All-Star Game Edition

Every year Praxis editor Matthew Shedden (@sheddenm) live tweets the MLB All-Star game as well as puts together a Briefing of interesting links and articles for the midpoint of the season. If you’re made this far into the ASG Briefing but are still skeptical, Will Leitch points out a special thing about the MLB ASG: I love that the […]

Lauren Wilford, Robert Andrew Norman, Zach Hoag, Zachary Thomas Settle

BREAKING BAD ROUNDTABLE: SEASON 5, EPISODE 15

   Zachary Thomas Settle:  And Now He’s Alone: Season 5, Episode 15 Walter White is in decay, and he has been for some time now. Things seemed to take a turn for the worse, though, while Walt, or should I say Mr. Lambert, was in New Hampshire. While we remain uncertain of the situation with […]

Lauren Wilford, Robert Andrew Norman, Zach Hoag, Zachary Thomas Settle

Breaking Bad Roundtable: Season 5, Episode 13

Zachary Thomas Settle: Redemption’s Brief Encounter with Justice: Season 5, Episode 13 Last night’s episode of Breaking Bad caught me off guard. What’s impressive to me about last night’s episode is the way that all of the details and mechanics of the narrative came together so brilliantly. Each piece was meticulously placed in a moving form, […]

Robert Andrew Norman, Zach Hoag, Zachary Thomas Settle

BREAKING BAD ROUNDTABLE: SEASON 5, EPISODE 12

Zachary Thomas Settle:  Feeling for Justice: Season 5, Episode 12 Last night’s Breaking Bad episode, “Rabid Dog,” picks up right where the previous episode left off: with Jesse dousing Walt’s house in gasoline. This episode, though, begins with Walt’s perspective, and we watch in eager anticipation as he frantically searches for Jesse. The most interesting […]

Lauren Wilford, Robert Andrew Norman, Zach Hoag, Zachary Thomas Settle

Breaking Bad Roundtable: Season 5, Episode 11

Zachary Thomas Settle: Faithful to the End: Season 5, Episode 11 Lauren wrote last week on the idea of sin, as its represented in the last few episodes of Breaking Bad, as a sort of commitment, a commitment that one has to honor. I think Lauren is right. Walt, is a man of utter faithfulness; […]

Zachary Thomas Settle

Breaking Bad Roundtable: Episode 10

Zachary Thomas Settle: All the Way Down the Rabbit Hole: Season 5, Episode 10 One of the most interesting things about the public’s reception of Breaking Bad is its overwhelming dislike of Skyler White; no other character has motivated such harsh critiques. I have to say, though, that Skyler has been one of my favorite […]

Zachary Thomas Settle

Breaking Bad Roundtable

Hello all. I’m excited to announce that The Other Journal is staring a new series in conjunction with the final eight episodes of Breaking Bad. We will be reviewing and discussing the show weekly, after each episode airs, in hopes of cultivating a fruitful and beneficial conversation about theology, culture, media and all things Breaking Bad. […]

Aaron Darrisaw

Voice Mail Hacking and the Kingdom of God

I suppose we, as a blog that concerns itself with the media, would be a bit remiss if we had not given some attention to the recent scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.  The well-known and highly successful media conglomerate has been charged with phone hacking.  Allegedly, News of the World, a subsidiary of News […]

Brian Bennett

You are the man!

Despite this phrase’s usual congratulatory significance for outstanding performance, it is also the phrase uttered by the prophet Nathan when he confronted David for his murder of Uriah so he could take his wife.  Shortly thereafter in the  midst of the accusation, Nathan utters “You did it in secret but I will do this thing […]