Jeb Ralston
The End of Loneliness at the End of the Galaxy
Project Hail Mary’s Hopeful Mission
The Sin That Endures Within
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu and the Problem of Evil
The Prodigal God I Needed
A Thank You to Tim Keller
Learning from Death in Pinocchio
The Story of a Surrogate Messiah and His Love of an Imperfect Father
A Sincere Man in an Ironic World
It’s easier to meme Nicolas Cage than it is to assess ourselves honestly.
The Gift of Growing Up (and Pixar’s Luca)
“I Never Had any Friends Later on Like the Ones I Had When I Was Twelve”
The Comfort of Not Being Our Own
“If You are What You Do and You Do Poorly, What Then? It’s Over; You’re Wiped Out.”
Sufjan Stevens’ Season of Hopelessness
“Let the Record Show What I Couldn’t Quite Confess / For by Living for Myself I Was Living for Unrest.”
The Irony of Outrage and Sufjan Stevens’ “America”
Criticism which Intimately Involves Self-Criticism Will Almost Always be More Readily Received
1917 and the Ruin of Beautiful Things
Does the Movie’s Aesthetic Trivialize the Brutality of War, or Does It Do the Opposite?








