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“A Stranger Things Christmas”
This fan-made mash-up of Stranger Things and A Charlie Brown Christmas is a classic in its own right, I think. Spoilers all through it, of course. It’s good to see the Christmas lights in good and appropriate use . . … Continue reading
The Deep Truth of Ordinary Things
Last week I got to watch a couple of episodes of the first season of Black Mirror, a BBC anthology show that’s been called the technology version of The Twilight Zone. While the content pushed a number of envelopes, it did … Continue reading
Theological Thinking and Doing
I’m always interested in (and frustrated by) the weird intersection between thought and action in the Christian faith. The two should be hold well together, but we tend to focus one over the other, disparaging thoughtless deeds or deedless thought. … Continue reading
Tom Haverford Talks Food
For all of the fun character on Parks and Recreation, it ends up being Tom Haverford that I laugh at the most. Tonight I watched the episode where Leslie takes tries online dating and ends up matched with the “nerd” … Continue reading
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Fantastic and the Bill of Rights
Captain Fantastic could easily have been the most faith-friendly movie of the year with its rooted-in-tradition, standing-against-culture mindset. And while it didn’t (couldn’t?) deliver on that promise, it still attempted to be a considerable critique of contemporary living. Here’s one … Continue reading
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Ancient Revolution in the Tense Present
N. T. Wright’s most recent book dropped this week. The Day the Revolution Began focuses on the death of Jesus. One of the questions Wright tackles early in the book is the question of the revolution’s content. From the book’s first … Continue reading
Run, Jesse, Run
Last night’s episode of The Flash took an interesting turn . . . or at least made an interesting “stop” along the way of season three. After a conversation with Jay Garrick about tampering with the timeline, Barry Allen decided … Continue reading
Lewis on Literature
Fall break has broken. It came to an end last night with church, some orange chicken with steamed rice, laundry, and the final pages of C. S. Lewis’s The Discarded Image. The book, Lewis’s attempt at writing a “primer” for … Continue reading
Pilgrim Days: A Hospitable World
Before he gets into a discussion of the ways contemporary culture has re-defined the identity of the pilgrim, Bauman casts one last picture of the kind of world necessary for a “classical” pilgrimage to take place. “Both life and and … Continue reading
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Pilgrim Days: The Desert and the Real
In “From Pilgrim to Tourist,” Zygmut Bauman traces a line from the Christian concept of the pilgrim to the contemporary scheme of self-definition. That line gets traced (metaphorically and historically) right through the desert. ‘We are pilgrims through time’ was, … Continue reading
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Space Enough, and Time 