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In this book review, Allen Yeh discusses Roger Olson’s “How to Be Evangelical without Being Conservative.”

(Ed. Note: Originally published at Film-Think.) “It’s a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.” (Koolhaas) I learned a lot from My Winnipeg, including but not limited to: how to straighten out a hallway rug, how to sense the presence of […]

(Ed. Note: Originally published at Film-Think) “And while Zarathustra was speaking in this way, someone in the crowd interrupted: “We’ve heard enough about the tightrope walker; now it’s time to see him!” And while the crowd laughed at Zarathustra, the tightrope walker, believing that he had been given his cue, began his performance.” (Nietzsche) “A new […]

    “Let those who like society better have it.” (J.N. Darby, a Brethren founder) “There are no friendly civilians!” (Rambo) Son of Rambow is a film I have personal connections to in three ways. I was raised in a far less conservative branch of the religious community its main character belongs to (the Plymouth […]

In this interview, award-winning poet and best-selling author Kathleen Norris discusses writing, death, marriage, elder care, the church community, and her new book “Acedia and Me.”

  “I’m the opposite of parched.” (Mike Leigh) Towards the beginning of Happy-Go-Lucky, Poppy and her friends are dancing in a club to Pulp’s “Common People.” This is the song in which Jarvis Cocker cynically croons about a rich girlfriend who wants to slum it for a while (“I said pretend you’ve got no money. […]

(Ed Note: Originally published at Film-Think.) Since Sokurov’s Aleksandra is about Chechnya in the same way The Sun was about Hirohito, or Mother and Son was about a literal maternal relationship, one doesn’t need a degree in Russian politics to grasp his poetic intent. Channeling both Bahktin and Tarkovsky in the way its fluid imagery is […]

(Ed. Note: Originally appeared at Film-Think) 1. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas) – Cycling image by image through the idea of things being revealed and unveiled, the time-lapse Genesis imagery that sets the film in motion culminates in a theologically rich network of visual and thematic allusions – as if Regygada’s natural cinematography needs an additional shove towards […]

n this poem, Caitlin Mackenzie poetically demonstrates that violence causes a diminished view of humanity and creation, and thus we must constantly seek to see wholeness.