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February 2016

February 17, 2016
Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square. This month we're asking:...
February 15, 2016
Deadpool, the latest cinematic superhero movie from Marvel, opened big this weekend, banking around $135...
February 08, 2016
I was pretty disappointed with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which was released this past...
February 05, 2016
This blog is about looking for God in entertainment, so it's only right we mention...
February 01, 2016
The Birth of a Nation won the top two honors at the Sundance Film Festival...

January 2016

January 27, 2016
Much has been written about the greatness of The X-Files—how the original series revolutionized television,...
January 22, 2016
If I was king of the Oscars, the competition for best actor this year would...
January 20, 2016
John Fitzgerald says that God is a squirrel. That’s what a buddy told him, at...
January 15, 2016
John "Tig" Tiegen came home mad. He was disgusted by how his fallen comrades were...
January 14, 2016
The Oscar nominations came out this morning. And religion, believe it or not, was everywhere....
January 11, 2016
Faith comes easier when everything else is hard. Mark "Oz" Geist, Kris "Tanto" Paronto and...
January 08, 2016
The United States is getting more secular all the time, we’re told. And yet religion has never...
January 04, 2016
Quentin Tarantino frustrates the snot out of me. He is, unquestionably, a master craftsman. He...

December 2015

December 30, 2015
I love reading lists, but I don't like making them. Choosing the "best" movies of...
December 28, 2015
I may not bleed orange and blue, but on game days I sweat the colors...
December 21, 2015
When I think of music’s great voices, I think of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan,...
December 18, 2015
Jim McDermott doesn't want me, or you, or anyone to tell him about Star Wars...
December 16, 2015
Kylo Ren isn’t all that he pretends to be. When we first meet him in...
December 11, 2015
In the Heart of the Sea gets under your skin. It’s hard for movies to...
December 09, 2015
“You gotta serve somebody,” Bob Dylan once sang. And whatever their faults may be, the...
December 06, 2015
(Caution: Spoilers ahead.) Eilis found new life in America. It wasn’t easy for the Irish...
December 02, 2015
Mother Teresa isn't a saint. Not yet officially, at any rate. But for many of...

November 2015

November 29, 2015
Music is inherently spiritual, I believe. It comes from the heart, from the soul, speaking...
November 25, 2015
As we go into this holiday weekend, we all can take the opportunity to consider...
November 21, 2015
Thanksgiving is, in some ways, America’s most devout holiday. There are no bunnies or men...
November 20, 2015
G.K. Chesterton once wrote that “Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites by...
November 19, 2015
I just watched a movie called The Letters, a biopic on the ministry of Mother...
November 16, 2015
Theaters are full of secular movies where God's name is mainly used as a curse....
November 13, 2015
Disney movies are rarely explicitly spiritual. Though Disney was a practicing Protestant and spoke often...
November 11, 2015
“Everything in your life is public. There are no secrets. Everything you say, everything you...
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