Pro-Life, Pro-Truth
"When I speak to my pro-choice friends, I’m often able to find some common ground. They do not necessarily admit that human life has a...
Silence and Sherlock
At First Things, I'm featured on both segments of this podcast. In the first segment, I talk about Silence (the book and the film) with...
Hast Thou Considered the Heptapod?
"Arrival stars Amy Adams as a linguist named Louise Banks who is tasked with learning how to speak to the aliens who have arrived in...
Jack Chick’s Nightmare Theology
Just in time for Halloween, I discussed the "scared-straight"-style evangelical tracts by the late artist Jack Chick. What made these...
Making Better Men
"When I ask my friends for their formative, positive male role models, the answers (real and fictional) were often men of quiet...
Trump’s Revolt Against Vows
"Trump’s policies, such as they are, usually come down to America breaking its promises. In the debate, he doubled-down on his previous...
The Moral Heart of Hamilton
"Aaron Burr, Hamilton’s narrator and Hamilton’s killer, complains that Hamilton has been “seated at the right hand of the father,”...
Pokémon Go and the Kindness of Strangers
"One night early in my Pokémon journey, I spotted about twenty young adults gathered, phones in hand, around an equestrian statue in...
Sins of their Fathers
"Films with a theological bent never get far from the oldest question of theodicy: Why does a loving God allow his children to suffer?...
Good Guys Have More Fun
I reviewed The Force Awakens for First Things: "Every time the new Star Wars film tried to be bigger than the last one (with “the last...
