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Island Travel
A few summers ago, while traveling through New Zealand, I had the opportunity to tour the Weta Workshop and Cave. I saw lots of cool things from movies like The Lord of the Rings, District 9, and the Narnia movies. … Continue reading
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In Praise of Handwavium
The folks over at The Ringer recently posted a fun little piece on JJ Abrams and some perceived cross-pollination between the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises. And while I can’t help but think that the author of the post … Continue reading
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Some Way to Recovery
Yuval Levin spends the first chunk of The Fractured Republic noting trends and making connections in American life over the 20th and 21st centuries. In the last chunk of the book, Levin attempts to articulate some way forward from our … Continue reading
And Then: Sherlock Season Four
So this teaser for Sherlock series four dropped today. And to think we’re just over five months away from this . . . I must say, I’m surprised we haven’t seen or heard anything from the next series of Doctor … Continue reading
Rainfall in Sweden
Andrew Peterson has been traveling through Europe and singing as he goes. Here’s a clip of him singing “The Rain Keeps Falling Down” live at the Gullbranna Festival in Sweden. It includes some great background vocals from his daughter and … Continue reading
Free Dave Eggers!
Heroes of the Frontier, the newest novel by Dave Eggers, drops next Tuesday at a bookstore near you. Eggers has been putting out some interesting, timely stuff over the last few years (from Hurricane Katrina to technology to contemporary disillusionment), … Continue reading
A Kind of Comfortably Numb
Tomorrowland was one of the more maligned and ignored “blockbusters” from the summer of 2015, which is ironic when considering the movie’s attempt at being a “canary in the coal mine concerning contemporary society. The idea behind telling stories about … Continue reading
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The Ethic of the Age
It’s been interesting for me to bear witness to even the small changes in thinking that have happened with high school students over the last thirteen years. Every spring, I get to spend a quarter with seniors talking about issues … Continue reading
The Beginning from the End
From Bonhoeffer’s introduction to Creation and Fall/Temptation, his study of the early chapters of the book of Genesis: The Church of Christ bears witness to the end of all things. It lives from the end, it thinks from the end, … Continue reading
Transformation Documentation
In many ways, Yuval Levin’s The Fractured Republic is a documentation of the broad changes in American culture over the last century. He does that on a large scale (and in large chunks) with his “ages” of conformity, frenzy, and … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 