Marilynne Robinson’s novel Home, which we reviewed last month, has been selected as one of five finalists for the National Book Award in fiction. W00t! Read more

Check out the newly revealed photos from the yet to be released next Star Trek movie. Read more

‘Best Week Ever’ switches to a one-talking head format: “the new show will be more written-through, and may even have a less mean-spirited take, more in line with Mr. Tompkins’s genial point of view.” Read more

How did the command to “Love Your Enemies” get so complicated?  Download “Prince of Peace – God of War” For Free Read more

James K. A. Smith, writing for Christianity Today, reviews D. A. Carson’s new book Christ and Culture Revisited, which is itself a reconsideration of H. Richard Niebuhr’s five models of ways that Christians relate to culture. Smith feels the critique is needed, but Carson’s attempt falls short in its execution because of its narrow views of both culture and salvation. Here’s the final paragraph of the review: “Indeed, what Carson misses is an opportunity to finally undo our bad habit... Read more

Peter Chattaway discusses the recent hits and misses of Walden Media, and how its relationship to Fox seems to have led to more of the latter. If Walden Media comes to an end, at least it will have lasted longer than Henry David Thoreau’s experiement at Walden Pond (seven years as opposed to two). And I still want to see City of Ember. Read more

World of Goo: These days my most anticipated video games are to be made available on Nintendo’s direct download service, WiiWare for somewhere between $5 and $15. World of Goo seems to be an example of what I consider to be a maturely designed video game. I’m super excited about it. Anybody else getting excited about anything on WiiWare, XBox Live, or Playstation Network? Anyone else find themselves more excited about the smaller downloadable games than the traditional retail stuff? Read more