Aug 23, 2022 Literature Religion Making Sense of Culture Making, Part 8: Searching for “Traces of God” If you think the way to influence culture is through means of power, think again.
Aug 23, 2022 Literature Religion Making Sense of Culture Making, Part 7: Why We Can’t Change Culture Toward the end of his book, Andy Crouch writes a chapter that’s kind of a bummer.
Aug 23, 2022 Literature Religion Technology Making Sense of Culture Making, Part 6: Will there be iPods in Heaven? The stuff we call “distraction” may last longer than you think. A lot longer.
Aug 23, 2022 Literature Religion Making Sense of Culture Making, Part 5: The Jesus Effect How are we supposed to relate to the world? For the answer, we look to Jesus.
Aug 23, 2022 Literature Religion Making Sense of Culture Making, Part 4: Israel and God’s Irony How God’s dealings with Israel reflect His love and concern for culture.
Aug 23, 2022 Literature Religion Making Sense of Culture Making, Part 3: In The Beginning Genesis, imago dei, the “Cultural Mandate,” and the Fall all figure in to Crouch’s study of Culture Making.
Aug 23, 2022 Literature Religion Making Sense of Culture Making, Part 2: Worldviews and Cultural Change Jason Morehead explores one of the seminal books about the interaction between Christianity and culture.
Aug 23, 2022 Literature Religion Making Sense of Culture Making, Part 1 In a new series, Jason Morehead explores one of the seminal books about the interaction between Christianity and culture.
Aug 21, 2022 Music “Abyss” by SRSQ A heartbreaking dreampop epic inspired by personal trauma and despair.
Aug 20, 2022 Pop Culture The Paralysis of Having Too Many Cultural Choices Dorian Lynskey asks “Does manically devouring as much culture as possible make me a better person?”
Aug 20, 2022 Video Games Blurring the Lines Between Video Games and Reality May Not Always Be a Bad Thing As video games grow ever deeper in their verisimilitude, the lines between what is “virtual” and what is “real” may blend in surprising ways.
Aug 20, 2022 Technology Ethical Dilemmas Arise When You Turn Science Fiction into Reality Once again, something that once was squarely in the domain of science fiction has crossed the line over into reality.
Aug 20, 2022 Politics Ann Coulter’s Use of “Retard”: A Perfect Example of Thoughtless Speech Our snark-driven, soundbite-fascinated culture seems to actively encourage us to not be thoughtful and circumspect in our speech.
Aug 20, 2022 Music Recording and Recovering Childhood in Sam Billen’s Places Exploring the recollections of childhood memories found in the music of Sam Billen.
Aug 20, 2022 Movies TIFF Report: The Ninth Day, The World, Kontroll Reviews, and some closing thoughts Reviews of Volker Schlöndorff’s WW2 morality tale, Jia Zhang-ke’s intriguing drama, and Nimród Antal’s urban thriller.
Aug 20, 2022 Movies TIFF Report: Symmetry, The Overture, Throwdown, Schizo Reviews Reviews of Konrad Niewolski’s prison film, Ittisoontorn Vichailak’s musical tribute, Johnnie To’s judo flick, and Gulshat Omarova coming-of-age movie.
Aug 20, 2022 Movies TIFF Report: I Heart Huckabees, The Machinist, House of Flying Daggers Reviews Reviews of David O. Russell’s philosophical comedy, Brad Anderson’s psychological thriller, and Zhang Yimou’s martial arts epic.
Aug 20, 2022 Movies TIFF Report: Undertow, Automne Reviews Reviews of David Gordon Green’s Southern fable and Ra’up McGee’s directorial debut.
Aug 20, 2022 Movies TIFF Report: After the Day Before, GITS 2 Reviews Reviews of Attila Janisch’s haunting murder mystery and Mamoru Oshii’s lavish cyberpunk epic.
Aug 19, 2022 Opus News Reclaiming My Writing (or, This Is Why Your RSS Newsreader Is Blowing Up) I’m taking steps to ensure that Opus is the definitive source for all of my writings.