Christians are called to be present with our neighbors in times of violence, but such presence requires more than a nod to solidarity or a word of encouragement here or there—being present requires repenting of our past failures of witness and allowing that repentance to shape us.
“In a number of recent broken-family films, “broken home” is not just a metaphor. Like Dorothy’s, uprooted in fairy-tale response to her running away, physical houses in one family film after another are displaced, torn asunder, and undergo fantastic, traumatic crises and transformations in visionary mirroring of the upheaval in the characters’ lives. Among the […]
In this essay, Villegas suggests that through worship we are invited to let the Holy Spirit form us into an assemblage of priests, subverting hierarchies of power and always making space for new people to express the good news in our lives.
“Love is something like a theater of the world but with only two people in the audience,” -Alain Badiou, “What is love, sexuality and desire?,”[i] In 1909, E.M. Forester wrote the “The Machine Stops.” He described a future world where people live privately in rooms and interact with one another via screens connected to […]
I’m a bit peeved. It’s always been a dream of mine to write a book on the most brilliant anti-war film of all time. No, I’m not talking about All Quiet on the Western Front, The Thin Red Line or Pauly Shores’ In the Army Now. I’m talking about the greatest, quite possibly never-to-be-topped, most […]
Breaking up is hard to do. John Totten addresses music as a method for regulating distressing emotions in the context of broken attachments, specifically regarding his own “relationship” with the music of classic rock genre benders Steely Dan.
Over the next two weeks, we’re hosting two reviews of Peter Rollins’s newest book, Insurrection. Many of you may be familiar with Pete. His work closely interacts and engages with contemporary Continental Philosophy in order to interrogate various forms of the modern church and its practices. Pete first began his work with the UK emerging […]
The conflicting (and sometimes conflicted) opinions on Courageous, the new film from the makers of Fireproof and Facing the Giants, may prove to be a far more interesting drama than the movie itself. Rotten Tomatoes shows us that Courageous has a 29% rating with critics (translation: “Awful!”) and a 95% rating with audiences (“Oscar! Oscar!”). […]
For the record: don’t read this. If you are not familiar with the story of the Dunbars, it is best to just let this one unfold as you watch it. Whether it is the smoking Twin Towers, smoldering Branch Davidian compound, or the Zapruder film, we have all had our faces rubbed in some televised […]