How the Crucifix Shows Christ’s Salvation in Dark Fantastical Stories
Horror fiction routinely appropriates the cross, but ends up evoking the gospel’s compelling power.
I Left My Book in a Hotel in Toulouse
On preserving the status of the physical book as an aesthetic, social, and spiritual good.
Why ‘The Mandalorian’ Makes Sense in a World That Masks Creedal Religion
The Mandalorian violates this Way—albeit for good reason—and desperately seeks redemption.
CULTURE & CURRENT EVENTS
- 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
- 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