“Weekend Reads” Archives

Also: Listening to silence, the downside of easy answers, the history of online awfulness, Facebook surveillance, Lovecraft’s bigotry, and women’s pockets.

Also: The best TV episodes, Hannah Gadsby, Beach House, The Fantastic Four, pre-human civilizations, Facebook’s evil, and Bible apps.

Also: Life-changing video games, special effects movies, rebooting Buffy, and the upside of email.

Also: 2001, The Atomic Cafe, the Ultima video games, Akira’s influence, Ant-Man and the Wasp, The Dark Knight, comic book industry woes, Ingmar Bergman, and vintage computers.

Also: Enter the Dragon’s overrated-ness, alone in the universe, saving government websites, Google’s quandaries, Tim Berners-Lee, and the weirdness of zero.

Also: Babylon 5, Fight Club, the dark side of missions trips, domestic nuclear attacks, (mis)understanding the Bible, and the impact of world traveling.

Also: A kung fu movie legend, American and Japanese culture, a new music streaming service, the royal wedding, and alexithymia.

Also: The Avengers, The Tree of Life, Tor Lundvall, Hollywood sexism, soldiers and America, and Sam Harris’s tribalism.

Also: “The Expanse,” movie monster science, “The Crow“ ‘s dark legacy, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Blue Velvet,” and what’s wrong the internet.

Also: Films and God, Facebook’s apologies, Gmail redesigns, the John 3:16 guy, Neil deGrasse Tyson, the Pixies, Tolkien, and a new favorite Twitter thread.

Also: Black Panther, the Silver Surfer, Chris Rock’s Netflix special, the web’s building blocks, back to blogging, and the benefits of social media sharing.

Also: Black Christians and white churches, Mamoru Oshii, Hulu’s satanic panic, wormholes, Stephen Hawking, Spotify, and understanding tech.

Also: Sin and the internet, Netflix’s Dark, Amazon, the Babylon Bee, the Book of Jonah, abortion and politics, and Christian martyr fantasies.

Also: Dystopia’s downfall, the Church and authenticity, information apocalypse, sexual assault at the Alamo Drafthouse, and C.S. Lewis’s influence on Neil Gaiman.

Also: The wonders of outer space, childrens stories, missile warnings and UI design, understanding the Bible’s story.

Also: The downside of algorithms, movie gun violence, John Williams, enjoying art by sexual predators, and diversity and movie criticism.

Also: Stranger Things’ best mom, Facebook’s effect on society, The Last Jedi, year-end lists, and American Christianity’s decline.

Also: Baby Driver’s success, London’s best restaurant(?), irrational math, 404 errors, and political disengagement and upheaval.

Also: Indie record labels, the new Blade Runner, Star Wars timeline, Mad Max: Fury Road, a history of Photoshop, Origen, and science and religion.

Also: Online dating, IVF’s dark side, technology and our brains, recent, Christ and Pop Culture highlights, and the modern western.