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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,...
April 05, 2024
While it has been a second since I've read The Maltese Falcon or seen the movie, I...

March 2024

March 29, 2024
I started to write that the Ghostbusters franchise has had only mixed success--both Ghostbusters 2 and Ghostbusters:...
March 22, 2024
Given what the DC world has done with Batman and the Joker's relationship (reason and...
March 15, 2024
The headline is of course a touch unfair. The Sci-Fi channel version of Dune was respectable enough....
March 08, 2024
What is being a pastor? Is it more like being a teacher? Is it more...
March 01, 2024
Every once in a while we come across a book that is convicting, challenging, obviously...

February 2024

February 23, 2024
After several years of effort, I've finally wrapped up the final volume of the First...
February 16, 2024
As I opened the blank page to write a review of Andre Naselli's short book Predestination:...
February 09, 2024
In the summer of 2021, Evangelicals across America tuned in to Christianity Today's podcast "The Rise and...
February 02, 2024
I've said on this blog in the past that both of the Reacher movies and Season 1...

January 2024

January 26, 2024
Neil Gaiman's 1602 is a clever idea, well-written (as we should expect from Gaiman), and generally faithful...
January 19, 2024
I'm late to the Super Mario Bros Movie bandwagon, but I'm glad I jumped on it when...
January 12, 2024
I don't know who the greatest living Christian scholar is, but there is a good...
January 05, 2024
Review of "Jesus and the Gift of Friendship" by Trillia Newbell

December 2023

December 29, 2023
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