Jean Arthur and the Virtue of Kindness
It is Jean Arthur's kindness, in the end, that saves Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
Virtue and the Women of Old Hollywood
To introduce my daughter to the seven classic virtues, I will enlist the help of classic guides: Ingrid Bergman, Myrna Loy, Katherine Hepburn, and Jean Arthur, among others.
After Darkness, Light?
The documentary Calvinist is a visual tract intended primarily for American evangelicals unaffiliated and possibility unfamiliar with the movement.
If You Have the Stomach, See First Reformed Twice
First Reformed is a testimony that sometimes movies ask something of us.
No God at All: ‘Infinity War’
God, if God there be, must be the ground, the condition of the possibility, of existence itself.
Beware Answered Prayer
Are we sure we want God to respond?
Taoism, Dualism, or Christian Hope? Rey’s Baptism in The Last Jedi
The Taoist influence in Star Wars is undeniable, but Rey’s journey and this film as a whole look a lot more like Christian baptism.
The Last Jedi and the Christian story
Something new is appearing in the culture: a dissatisfaction with a banal materialism and a nostalgia for a story that gives hope, one that tells of a sacred tree.