On this Valentines day, here is a short meditation on dealing with relational destruction. Clearly I’m a cheery one. Actually, this is provoked by my annoyance with the recent ubiquity of Adele’s song, which I find insidious. Considering that Saint Valentine was martyred––a witness to the truth––I think he would agree with the need for […]
In this essay, Ryan Davis wrestles with God’s goodness and Scriptural promises in the face of profound physical suffering.
Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki was recently interviewed about his work with Terrence Malick on The Tree of Life, and discusses some of the technical aspects of working with the acclaimed director. But this is perhaps the most interesting bit: Lubezki, who has since made his third film with Malick, an untitled love story with Ben Affleck and Rachel […]
This is a real gem. America/Israel Racing . . . in a Toyota. Truly ecumenical. To think about what Mr. MacCaull says in the video, did Christians learn that they shouldn’t ‘turn their back on Israel’ after the creation of the State of Israel? It’s a curious phenomenon, right? Anti-Semitic for 2,000 years, but now […]
Midnight Eye’s Mark Player has written a fascinating and very in-depth essay on the sub-genre of Japanese cyberpunk cinema and its major figures (e.g., Shinya Tsukamoto, Shozin Fukui), notable films (e.g., Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Electric Dragon 80,000V, Akira, Rubber’s Lover), and themes. The world of live-action Japanese cyberpunk is a twisted and strange one indeed; a far cry […]
Vic Sizemore reviews Robert Clark’s latest novel, Heaven, which tracks the love affair between two men during the heyday of the American dream.
Is faith “a proclamation of fidelity to an infinite ethical demand which enacts a new form of subjectivity” or something more, or something less? One of our guest authors, Katherine Sarah Moody, reviews Simon Critchley’s new book, “The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology” over at the Political Theology blog. Go check it […]
Perhaps if the Catholic Church had not, historically, “offered its services” to every “well-intentioned” government its come into contact with for the past 1,700 years, I would be a little more sympathetic toward its recent complaints about its supposedly diminishing rights. (In case you are wondering: 1) I re-wrote the first line as, apparently, some people […]
John Piper’s Bloodlines: Race, Cross and the Christian marks the entrance of a major American pastor into conversations about race and the church, but it also displays some problematic views of both race and Christ that ultimately work against Piper’s hopes for racial harmony.
