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April 2025

April 29, 2025
How do we view ourselves and how does that match up to reality? That's actually...

March 2025

March 04, 2025
I'm normally something of a completist with it comes to reading classic works. Certainly abridgements...

February 2025

February 28, 2025
As we continue to predict what the future of media will look like in our...
February 25, 2025
Amazon has released the first three episodes of Reacher, and as with past seasons and versions,...
February 21, 2025
As we continue to think about what entertainment will look like in the media landscape...
February 18, 2025
I have never lived in an America without Saturday Night Live, and while my parents technically...
February 14, 2025
As we continue to think about the future of media in a fragmented world, there...
February 07, 2025
This series thinking about the future of media is wide ranging, as evidenced by the...

January 2025

January 31, 2025
As we continue to think about what the coming new world order for entertainment will...
January 28, 2025
How should we die? I think it was one of the Wesleys who noted that...
January 24, 2025
As we continue to think about what the future holds for media, I think it's...
January 21, 2025
Continuing the not-necessarily-for-everyone exercise of reading through the Schaff set of Church Fathers (if my...
January 17, 2025
As the media landscape changes, one thing that is already underway is the rise of...
January 10, 2025
The landscape of film--both television and the movies--has been changing in the past twenty years....

December 2024

December 24, 2024
It's been a quiet few months at Schaeffer's Ghost thanks to some chaos IRL (mostly...

July 2024

July 19, 2024
With the nomination of J.D. Vance as Donald Trump's running mate, I thought it worthwhile...
July 12, 2024
9Marks has been slowly releasing a series of pamphlets in the "Church Questions" series. Each...
July 05, 2024
Does God judge the earth? What does that judgment look like? Is it a fleeting-but-still-terrible...

June 2024

June 28, 2024
Have you ever read the parable of the prodigal son and thought "they should rewrite...
June 21, 2024
Christianity and the sciences have fallen on hard times in the last century and a...
June 14, 2024
How should Christians live in the modern world? This is of course not a new...
June 07, 2024
In the middle of the 20th century, an ongoing concern of science fiction writers (and...

May 2024

May 31, 2024
You'd think that when a theologian passes away, their scholarly output would cease. And yet...
May 24, 2024
How should Christians engage with modern American entertainment culture? Robust thinking about this topic has...
May 16, 2024
The Academy of Country Music Awards show last night on Amazon was a pageant of...
May 10, 2024
Just what is the mission of the church? This is at the same time a...
May 03, 2024
It's always interesting to go back to books you read in the past and judge...

April 2024

April 26, 2024
In what probably won't (but easily could) be a series on how Science Fiction so...
April 19, 2024
Samuel James isn't offering anything new (the best books don't), but he brings together a...
April 12, 2024
Every so often I am reminded just how visionary science fiction authors can be. Granted,...
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