Memento Mori: On Death and Evil
Faith strangely exists amidst explicit doubts when we contemplate our death.
Learning to Be God’s Child
Unlike me, God is patient. God is good. God doesn’t need us to pay attention to him but he keeps working at us anyway.
Springsteen, Belonging, and Religion in Blinded by the Light
To be sure, Springsteenism is an ambiguous religiosity. Springsteen, as Roops pronounces, “knows everything you’ve ever felt … and he can describe it better for you.” His music allows one to see the depth and profundity in ordinary life — to see even father-son conflict as “something as old as time,” as Manzoor says, and to respond with empathy. Springsteen himself is a role model of uncommon decency.
The Virtues of Horror
There is a deep mysticism at the heart of the Dark Tower books — the quest to find the heart of reality and the determination to see it for what it is despite all the hurt and pain along the way.
Stranger Things 3: The Spirit of the Mall
Stranger Things 3 runs with the torch of kids’ adventure that we rarely see either in fiction or in the culture these days.
A Creedal Posture
Christianity without a Creed risks becoming an endorsement of works righteousness, of human effort at being a decent person. With the Creed, Christianity becomes a remembering of what has been accomplished through Christ.
Requiem for a Nun: On Staying When Friends Leave
It was cold and damp the day the last Anglican mass was celebrated in the chapel at All Saints Convent...It was a Requiem
Pentecostal and Catholic Distinctives
How, in the first place, is the Pentecostal way of reading Scripture distinctive?