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“Get low. I don’t even know what that means. I guess it means to get low for Jesus before it’s time. Keep above the ground before you go below the ground.”
Robert Duvall

An essay that uses two recent Seattle Art Museum exhibits to compare Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, and Kurt Cobain and to reflect on the nature of celebrity.

Earlier this week, David Gelernter posted a really good article over at Big Questions Online that caught my attention. It did so because I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine, who works as an aerodynamicist for a major NASCAR team, that centered on the relationship of entropy to eschatology.  That is, if […]

Well, I managed to miss this fantastic essay last week. But I am glad for that, as I encountered it after just stumbling across Christian Lorentzen’s crucifixion of Wes Anderson as hipster messiah. I often recall with glee the end of The Life Aquatic, in which our holy moment becomes curated by none other than […]

n+1 magazine has periodically published the kind of film criticism that meets the catchy, thoughtful standard of the magazine. (Such as this excellent review of two recent books on Cahiers du Cinema/the French New Wave.) It looks like they will now be publishing a section dedicated to film criticism on a more regular basis. They […]

In a recent interview about her latest book, Marilynne Robinson began with the following few ideas: In Absence of Mind, your main argument is that the influential popular scientist-writers of our age (Wilson, Dennett, Dawkins, Pinker, et al.) fail to acknowledge the spiritual impulses, conscience, compassion, and other felt experiences, via the human mind, that […]

We watched six great films in five days: La Jetee, Au hasard Balthazar, Ordet, The Son, Code Unknown, and Three Colors: Blue. Here’s a podcast full of reflections on the experience.

Brian McLaren has been asking important questions about Christian practice for decades, stirring needed debate within the world of evangelicalism and beyond. His newest book, A New Kind of Christianity, continues McLaren’s project of assessing and reassessing our assumptions concerning the foundations of modern Christian practice by asking ten important questions about the pillars of the Christian faith: narrative, […]

Brian McLaren has been asking important questions about Christian practice for decades, stirring needed debate within the world of evangelicalism and beyond. His newest book, A New Kind of Christianity, continues McLaren’s project of assessing and reassessing our assumptions concerning the foundations of modern Christian practice by asking ten important questions about the pillars of the Christian faith: narrative, […]