Today, we welcome a new guest contributor, Lauren Wilford, with a review of the new film by Woody Allen. Lauren studies Theatre and Art History at Seattle Pacific University. She wanted to add Philosophy as a third major but she watches movies instead. She blogs at Midas and the Movies. • Midnight in Paris: the title slides in […]
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of three reviews on Terrence Malick’s latest film. In reviewing any new work, particularly one from someone as storied and reclusive as director Terrence Malick, upon whose oeuvre critics tend to either lavish praise or shower derision, one has to gauge the newest constellation against the […]
Breena Wiederhoeft is the graphic artist behind Easel Ain’t Easy, a quirky and witty comic blog. Breena has been working hard on her debut novel Picket Line, which is now available for pre-order. Thomas Turner sat down digitally to chat with Breena to discuss how the digital, technologically advanced world we live in intersects with […]
Church in the Present Tense: A Candid Look at What’s Emerging is a uniquely collaborative book in which several sympathetic scholars (in theology, biblical studies, and philosophy) take stock of the “emerging” conversation to date, with a consistent focus on issues of hermeneutics, epistemology, and worship. The collaborators and co-authors will be familiar to many […]
Writer Alissa Wilkinson reflects on the brunching habits she learned from living in New York City, and the sacredness of eating together.
In a recent issue of the Guardian, Archbishop Rowan Williams (what’s up with those superhero eyebrows?) astutely explains why he is not God’s boxer. Read, read, read. Now that you’ve read the lovely article, consider/do battle with/loathe/etc., whatever (thanks Over The Rhine), a few points I’ve taken from the interview (with points 5 & 6 […]
I just received a copy of Michael Long’s Christian Peace and Nonviolence: A Documentary History. I’m pretty excited about it and would love to give you a full-blown review but that’s reserved for a future journal entry. I can tell you this much: it’s quite thorough and contains sections of scripture, works from the early […]
Ah yes, everything was so perfect back then. Women knew their place, blacks couldn’t attend schools, share bathrooms or eat with whites, it was kosher to be anti-Semitic, and after centuries of hard-work Native Americans were, finally, almost completely decimated. And more importantly . . . we had prayer in school! It was very formative, […]
The Playlist looks back over the life and career of the famous director, and offers assessments of his feature films. Endlessly fascinated by the spiritual, the metaphysical, the texture of dreams and memory, Tarkovsky eschewed conventional narrative and plot, and instead sought to illuminate the essence of the unconscious through a patient, enigmatic and reflective […]