When We Wonder How to Pray I make my living with words. Still, I often run out of them at just the wrong moment.…
Technology and the Biblical Story
Community / Culture / Discernment / Maturity and Flourishing
Years ago, as a young engineer recently graduated from school and sitting in a cubical farm, I recall wondering, “What does the Gospel have…
Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017)
A Discussion Guide Backstory: the Creation of Wonder Woman Wonder Woman was originally the brainchild of Dr. William Moulon Marston (1893-1947), a Harvard educated…
Light in a Darkened Room
When I teach on film and have the chance to recommend books I always include the ones written by Roy Anker. In fact, I…
Race in America: A Conversation
Community / Culture / Pluralistic World / Spirituality
Reading the World—interview of Luke Bobo on Race in America “To love your neighbor as yourself,” Christopher Wright says in The Mission of God,…
Nine Fabulous Books for Giving with Side Musings on Chickens and other Creatures
As Christmas approaches with the speed of an escaping mouse, you were wondering what to give that special picky person in your life who…
Terrorizing the Masses: Identity, Mass Shootings, and the Media Construction of “Terror” (Ruth DeFoster, 2017)
Shaped by media in an age of toxic masculinity A question: how often do mass shootings occur in America? Well, it depends on how…
Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017) & Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Being human in a world of machines Some questions never go away. We may ignore them, or be so distracted or addicted or busy…
The Recovery of Classical Greek Thinking
There were certain ancient schools of thought, particularly Stoicism and Epicureanism, which could not be fully embraced without abandoning some fundamental Christian principles. Again,…
Ex Machina
The Real Test “To be or not to be—that is the question.” [Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1] Things were changing when Mortimer Adler published…