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)

Movies

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)

Movies

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)

Books

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)

Books

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)

Movies

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)

Movies

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)

Movies

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…