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While humor may seem an unlikely ingredient for prayer, it can provide a way out of well-worn dichotomies and into encounters with the living God.

“It is better to study a few films closely than to see many films and think on them occasionally.” “Praise not a work for how much you agree with its religion or its politics — for propaganda is not art, and persuasion is not the stuff of great cinema.”

My friend Marc Bekoff recently wrote a piece on the idiocy of the time-honored tradition called “running with the bulls”. Marc has less of a potty mouth than myself . . . well, that or either Psychology Today will not let him title his post what I titled mine–so, thanks The Other Journal for being […]

                            When I went to go see Wes Anderson’s delightful Moonrise Kingdom last month, my viewing partner noticed something funny about the trailers that preceded it: “Three of the last four previews have included a couple jumping into a pool.” Ah, pools, where […]

John Chapman once advised followers to “pray as you can, and do not try to pray as you can’t,” as a way of encouraging both freedom from the way others say we should pray as well as direction from someone who lives well a life of prayer.

The Texas Monthly article on the death of Marjorie Nugent at the hands of Bernie Tiede remains one of my favorite longreads (Midnight in the Garden of East Texas). The balance it strikes between affectionate regionalism, sexual oppression, bible belt charity, and cold-blooded murder is straight out of a Flannery O’Connor short. Linklater’s take on […]

A review of A World for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology, edited by William F. Storrar, Peter J. Casarella, and Paul Louis Metzger.

Above the new brand materials for Saint Laurent During Summer 2012, a subtle shift was made to France’s most significant fashion label. Just a few years after the designer’s passing, Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) has been renamed Saint Laurent.  Born with the last name Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, Yves Saint Laurent was fashion’s golden child, but refining his […]

Tomorrow (or today, depending on when I get around to posting this), is International Homeless Animal Day. For one day, all the self-involved political pundits of the democratic and republican party are going to shut their mouths long enough to do something wonderful for the least of these. For one whole day, I won’t have […]