Being a Potato Bug Sam Keyes March 10, 2020 Commentary, Contributors, Reviews & Culture, Roman Catholic Church, TV Watching Mister Rogers with my children is a constant reminder of how impoverished our culture can be when it comes to childhood.
“Hell is Other People,” but Heaven Can’t Be: The Good Place’s Unintentionally Augustinian Outcome Eugene R. Schlesinger February 6, 2020 Ethics, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church, TV With its final door, The Good Place proves useful for our journey once more: we cannot stop here, we must journey on.
God, Sex, and the Restless Hearts of Fleabag Zac Koons December 3, 2019 Contributors, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church, TV Fleabag paints a nuanced portrait of the soul’s condition in the secular age.
Stranger Things 3: The Spirit of the Mall Andrew Petiprin July 29, 2019 Commentary, Contributors, Roman Catholic Church, TV Stranger Things 3 runs with the torch of kids’ adventure that we rarely see either in fiction or in the culture these days.
Good Omens Hannah Matis July 18, 2019 Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church, TV This is salvation history, but told from the point of view of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
The Chilling Contradictions of Sabrina Eugene R. Schlesinger April 26, 2019 Commentary, TV Sabrina is beset with contradictions that cry out for a resolution within the Christian faith.
Millennial Burnout and The Good Place Sam Keyes February 14, 2019 Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church, TV The problem is not that millennials don’t know how to work, it’s that work is all they know.
Mrs. Maisel’s Mistake Emily Hylden January 3, 2019 Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church, TV It seems passé for a 21st-century streaming series to send the message that a woman can’t have it all. So what gives?