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Doctor Strange: Apologist for the Transcendent Frame
Caught a Thursday night showing of Doctor Strange, the latest entry in Marvel Studio’s ever-expanding cinematic universe. It was a great experience, hitting all of the right notes with storytelling and visual cues. Doctor Strange tells the story of a … Continue reading
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“Every Man’s Hat”
Yesterday marked the 499th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. The folks at First Things posted a great article by Timothy George about one of the phrases often associated with the “movement,” the concept of the “priesthood of … Continue reading
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The Monster and Dr. Wells
One of the more interesting and unexpected curve-balls thrown at viewers in the most recent episode of The Flash was the team’s decision to recruit a Dr. Harrison Wells from another Earth to replace the Wells from Earth-2 (who became … Continue reading
“You All Loved Him Once”
I’d heard that Conor Oberst had recently released a new album, but I hadn’t given much thought to checking it out until last night. I started with “You All Loved Him Once.” What a brutally poignant song about what we … Continue reading
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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
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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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
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: Changes in Identification
A few weeks ago, Rod Dreher spent a post reflecting on “From Pilgrim to Tourist- or a Short History of Identity” by Zygmunt Bauman as part of his continuing articulation of “the Benedict Option.” A made a copy of the … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 