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November 2015

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...
November 09, 2015
The United States is growing more secular. According to data released earlier this month by...
November 06, 2015
God loves James Bond. Well, OK, He loves all of us. But in spite of...
November 03, 2015
The Walking Dead has always been more about the good and evil inside the living...
November 01, 2015
Science and religion are sometimes portrayed as mortal enemies—worldviews that are completely incompatible with one...

October 2015

October 29, 2015
In Universal Pictures Steve Jobs, we meet a brilliant, flawed protagonist—a man who demanded his...
October 26, 2015
War Room is this year's Christian smash. Its core evangelical audience has helped the Kendrick...
October 23, 2015
I have a soft spot in my heart (and possibly on the brain) for bad movies....
October 21, 2015
There's a box in front of you—about the size of a shoebox, black and plain,...
October 15, 2015
Christian movies can be difficult for secular audiences to embrace. Sometimes it’s because of the...
October 14, 2015
Frankenstein, the 1931 classic Universal monster movie, probably doesn’t have the oomph to terrify folks...
October 11, 2015
October is the season for scary movies. So says Redbox, anyway. The movie rental company polled...
October 08, 2015
Phil Vischer has always been one of my favorite storytellers. My kids drew up watching...
October 05, 2015
The second season of The Leftovers, on HBO, begins with what feels like a Paleolithic...
October 02, 2015
Mars has never been a particularly welcoming place. From H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds...

September 2015

September 30, 2015
When I was youngish, a friend of mine and I went to check out the...
September 25, 2015
  Say what you will about we conservative Christians, we do not lack opinions. And...
September 24, 2015
I typically deal with entertainment here at the Watching God blog, but its mission extends...
September 21, 2015
Way back in the Paleolithic 1980s, sage philosopher Mr. Spock told us that "The needs...
September 18, 2015
Last year was called the year of the faith-based movie, and in a lot of...
September 14, 2015
I’ve never been a big fan of the term “Dark Ages,” actually. It seems kinda...
September 11, 2015
90 Minutes in Heaven, released today, is reportedly the true  story of a man who...
September 04, 2015
A Walk in the Woods is about two oldsters (played by the suitably-but-gracefully aged Robert...
September 02, 2015
A few days ago, a reporter interviewed me about the Christian movie industry—whether there should...
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