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This review theologically examines the presence of faith, beauty, and love in the new U2 album NO LINE ON THE HORIZON.

It resembles the pithy call and response of Hiroshima, mon amour, but can only script Simon’s solitary, confused, anguished voice. He has arrived at the end of the landslide, immobilized. His recitation of “stucke, stucke” in these final moments of darkness calls to mind the use of the word to refer to the corpses of Nazi victims in train, cars and camps.

A renewed celebration of an old classic of life and truth, poetry and prose: The Journal of Jules Renard.

A poem by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz that describes a non-eyewitness response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

Mourning death is dramatically different around the world, as is the care people need in the face of death.

This is a review of William T. Cavanaugh’s Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire.

This art exhibit from Shimon Sakakibara includes two-dimensional paintings, two installations, and a review by Jen Grabarczyk; it speaks to a loss of hope and a deceptive sense of life and meaning in individuals, specifically in regards to youth.

(Ed. Note: Originally published at Film-Think.)   “Christian filmmaking is coming of age. Christian filmmaking is coming of age!” (Doug Phillips, SAICFF organizer) “…not all things are profitable.” (1 Cor. 6:12) So I was sitting there in my car early on Saturday morning listening to NPR and all these Christians start talking. It was disorienting to […]

This essay explores issues of meaning and divine providence in the context of Mary Doria Russell’s THE SPARROW.