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Music Man
Readers often find the opening chapters of 1 Chronicles stultifying. These pages contain list after list of…
Two Catholics and the Catholic Game
Baseball is by far the most Catholic of the sports on which we lavish such attention and…
A Loss of Trust
The ordeal is over; my niece has chosen Tulane. A buddy in Wisconsin has a daughter, and…
Rhyme and Reason
Hymns are chimerical critters. Their bodies are made of poetry, and their breath is music. The natural…
Prince: Dance. Music. Sex. Religion.
Iʼm twenty years old, maybe twenty one. Weʼre four deep in my little two-door Saturn, on our…
Terrence Malick’s Openness to Life
Terrence Malick has baffled many of the film critics who once championed him. His detractors call his…
David Bowie’s Search for God
One doesn’t often find people of faith, especially conservatives, rallying around an entertainer who became famous for…
Worship Wars
I listened in on a conversation recently on “the worship wars” in evangelical-style congregations and I heard…
Last Year’s Horror Cornucopia: Suffering in Style
Last night I watched The Final Girls, Todd Strauss-Schulson’s 2015 slasher parody about mourning. It’s charming, touching,…
Falstaff the Prophet
His face boasts a geological set of wrinkles, which fold seismically with each witticism or bold-faced lie…
Devotio Tarantino
Tarantino and Theologyeds. jonathan walls and jerry wallsslideshow, 264 pages, $19.99 Quentin Tarantino once said, “Movies are…
Spotlight on the Vulnerable
Any major American newspaper would immediately fire a reporter who was caught using composite characters or inventing…
The Christian Vision of “The War Room”
Released last summer in theaters, and now available on DVD, The War Room was the most surprising…
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Not long after the Civil War, John Wesley Work, an African American church choir director and scholar…
Don’t Kill the Moon
The long-running British sci-fi staple Doctor Who has quietly become one of the most pro-life shows on television. Under…
