In 1947, the great English poet W. H. Auden wrote a letter to his friend Ursula Niebuhr in which he confessed: “I don’t think…
Wesley Hill
Wesley Hill is assistant professor of Biblical Studies at Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality (Zondervan).
Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
There’s a scene in the middle of Gus Van Sant’s Milk that, for me, captures the heart of the movie. The apartment Harvey Milk…
Funny People (Judd Apatow, 2009)
Apatow and Aristotle on Friendship I went into the theater expecting to love Funny People. I’d been pleasantly surprised by the way Judd Apatow’s…
The Exact Place: A Memoir (Margie Haack, 2012)
Seeing a Stork: Margie Haack’s Childhood in Northern Minnesota The memoirist Isak Dinesen recounts a story she heard from a child when she lived…
Sharing God’s Passion: Prophetic Spirituality (Paul Hedley Jones, 2012)
The Story of a Passionate God Fifty years ago, the great Jewish scholar Abraham Joshua Heschel published The Prophets, a sprawling, two-volume study of…
Leaving All, Gaining All
Community / Faith / Family / Maturity and Flourishing / Safe Place / Spirituality
Author’s note: This was originally delivered as a talk at Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL on April 1, 2011, as part of a series of…
127 Hours (Danny Boyle, 2010)
Love is a Cry for Help A couple of years ago, when Slumdog Millionaire came out, I went to see it five times in…
Youth In Revolt (Miguel Arteta, 2010)
Based on the irreverent coming-of-age novel by C. D. Payne and directed by Miguel Arteta, Youth in Revolt doesn’t begin there—with the revolt. Instead…
Away We Go (Sam Mendes, 2009)
Co-written by Dave Eggers. Away We Go. Yup, co-writer on top. That was what the big block letters read on the marquee at the…
Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation (Rodney Clapp, 2008)
What do country music legend Johnny Cash, Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth, and George W. Bush have in common? By most reasonable estimates, little…