All Reflect
"Exile" - An Inquiry Of Social Discourse
Listening requires compassion. It requires an openness to truly hear, without needing to immediately respond. Hearing takes patience.
Queen’s Gambit, King’s Gambit
The suggestion in The Queen’s Gambit is that if we risk enough, we can overcome our struggles. But this does...
Canceling Truth and Love
Our culture’s proclivity to engage in cancel culture reveals the startling possibility that we might not care about love or...
The Morality of Warning Labels
Disney has added warning labels to old films because it recognizes that movies are a powerful means of influencing society—but...
A Soul Without a Purpose
Joining beloved Pixar creations like Up and Inside Out, Soul is a masterful story that causes us to ask what...
Charles & Diana: A Fractured Fairytale
Peter Morgan’s take on Charles and Diana in The Crown suggests a complex story, where responsibility for their failing marriage...
The Hole in Bieber's "Holy"
“Holy” is a song sharing a man’s response to a woman who invites him into the powerful experience of love—an...
His Dark Materials: Of Criticism and Contempt
Pullman’s refutation of C. S. Lewis and Christianity is really a refutation of his own caricature of C. S. Lewis...
Baby Yoda: Cutest Killer in the Galaxy
The outrage caused by Baby Yoda's appetite for unfertilized frog eggs shows that we know deep down that life is...
No Mercy
Johnny Lawrence teaches his students how to be confident and stand up to bullies. He does so, however, by turning...
Can Anything Good Come out of Hogwarts?
The idea that the Harry Potter books are teaching children witchcraft is severely misguided.
Not Safe, but Good
Can Aslan help us think better thoughts about God?
