Enjoy the Moment
Mobile devices have become the medium through which we experience our world and ourselves, but what are we missing when we try to record every experience?
Narnia Reveals the Best Kind of Nationalism
What does it mean to love one’s country in a world where every social and political debate is heightened to a mini-apocalypse, and the very ideas of nationalism…
‘Barbie’ as Portal Fantasy—and What That Means for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia Adaptation
Lewis's adored classic now shares space with Barbie as part of that beloved subgenre.
CULTURE & CURRENT EVENTS
- Enjoy the Moment, 2024
- Narnia Reveals the Best Kind of Nationalism, 2024
- Barbie as Portal Fantasy—and What That Means for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia Adaptation, 2023
- How the Crucifix Shows Christ’s Salvation in Dark Fantastical Stories, 2023
- Human Becomes Her: the Apocalypse of Barbie, 2023
- No Dust on Me: His Dark Materials Reflects Our Deeply Questioning Age, 2023
- Stubbornly Alive: Pixar’s Soul is the Perfect Movie for a World Weary of Living, 2021
- Why America’s Confederate Monuments Can’t be Compared to Hitler and Nazi Germany, 2020
- Now is Not the Time for Creators to Cancel Their Work: Why Art is Essential to Social Justice, 2020
- Three Things White People Can Learn from Dan Cathy and ‘The Babylon Bee’, 2020
- Does the Commentary Class Know that Multiple Things Can Be True at the Same Time?, 2020
BOOKS
- I Left My Book in a Hotel in Toulouse, 2023
- Wherever I Go, That’s Where the Party’s At: Prince Corin as C.S. Lewis’ Harbinger of Joy, 2022
- Those Who Read vs. Those Who Watch, 2022
- There Are No Cruel Narnians: What The Horse and His Boy Can Tell Us About Racism, Cultural Superiority, Beauty Standards, and Inclusiveness, 2021
- The Diverse Kingdom: Growing Inclusion in SFF Publishing is a Small Fulfillment of God’s Plan, 2018
SUPERHEROES & SCIFI
- Barry Allen and the League of Very Bad Boys, 2023
- The Flash Ranks Characters Over Spectacle for a Surprisingly Heartfelt Speedrun, 2023
- Why The Mandalorian Makes Sense in a World That Masks Creedal Religion, 2023
- Scoffing at Tradition: Shuri’s Great Crisis in Wakanda Forever, 2022
- The Annihilation of Bruce Wayne: How the Batman Becomes a Popular Avenger, 2022
- Why is Aunt May So Powerful in Spider-Man: No Way Home?, 2022
- Why Batman Is a Terrible Superhero (Or, Why Our Present Social Crises Demand a Different Class of Hero), 2020
- The Enduring Legacy of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., 2020
- Why Batman Can’t Save Gotham, 2019
FAITH
- In Pursuit of Pure Northernness, 2024
- The Clique of Heaven, 2022
- “I, Myself, Will Go Down With You”, 2022
- The Christian Church Failed Jon Steingard, and It’s Failing Your Kids Too, 2020
- Blurred Reflections, 2018
- 3 Things the March for Our Lives Tells the Church About Gen Z, 2018
- What ‘American Gods’ Says About American Christianity, 2017
MUSIC
- Taylor Swift, queen of the ‘unwashed masses’, 2024
- The Depths of Deliverance, 2023
- Betraying “America”: Sufjan Stevens Asks Us to Kiss the Country We Know Goodbye, 2020
- The Second Coming of Purity Ring, 2020
- “i like the devil”: Purity Ring’s Prayer for a Balanced Perspective on Feminism and Womanhood, 2020