Feb 8, 2018 Best of Opus Comics Soaring Through the Spaceways With the Silver Surfer (Review) Dan Slott and Mike Allred’s take on the Silver Surfer is a far cry from the comics of my youth — for better and worse.
Jan 1, 2018 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2017, Featuring Cloakroom, Grails, Lingua Ignota, Mount Eerie, Slowdive & more This mix is a collection of songs that helped me get through the year — that encouraged, uplifted, challenged, and yes, moved me.
Dec 30, 2017 Best of Opus Movies The Last Jedi Challenges the Star Wars Status Quo to Go Beyond Mere Nostalgia (Review) By striking it down, Rian Johnson helped ensure that Star Wars could become more powerful than we can possibly imagine.
Dec 18, 2017 Best of Opus Movies Technology Should Netflix care how much you watched A Christmas Prince? We need to get over any notion we might have that online services like Netflix are neutral platforms, or platforms that care about us.
Nov 13, 2017 Best of Opus Politics What keeps us from falling down? Once again, the moral failure at the heart of American Christianity is exposed for all to see.
Oct 31, 2017 Best of Opus TV Stranger Things 2 Is a (Mostly) Satisfying Return to Hawkins, Indiana Also, let’s talk about what’ll happen in season 3 and why the series is so affecting to begin with.
Oct 3, 2017 Best of Opus Pop Culture Let’s Be Honest About Hugh Hefner’s Legacy In light of his death, some have examined Hugh Hefner’s legacy and found it deeply wanting.
Sep 19, 2017 Best of Opus Music From Industrial Noise to Serene Ambience: Exploring vidnaObmana’s Early Years Dirk Serries’ acclaimed ambient project underwent some pretty dramatic shifts as evidenced by these early recordings.
Aug 27, 2017 Best of Opus Miscellany Ingmar Bergman vs. The Spirit of Our Age What happens when we make ourselves the highest goal of our own existence?
Aug 12, 2017 Best of Opus Web Development It’s Time to Adopt a Block-Oriented View of Website Content Management Think of a webpage as a collection of discrete, self-contained blocks of content — and edit it accordingly.
Jul 31, 2017 Best of Opus Nerdery Religion TV Star Trek Has Always Been More Religious Than Its Creators Want or Realize It’s a stretch to say that “religion basically no longer exists” in the Star Trek universe.
Jul 1, 2017 Best of Opus Movies As a Man, I’m Thankful for an Awesome Female Superhero Movie Or, some random thoughts about Wonder Woman, inclusivity, and how women are objectified in movies.
May 31, 2017 Best of Opus Personal Sometimes You Really Can’t Go Home Again The demolition of my childhood home and the impermanence of memory.
May 17, 2017 Best of Opus Music PWR BTTM’s Disgrace Reminds Us That Separating Artists From Their Art Is Difficult Art can be transcendent — but enjoying it in spite of the artist’s flaws and transgressions can be difficult.
Apr 5, 2017 Best of Opus Movies Finding Mono No Aware in Japanese Films These films typify “the sadness of things.”
Dec 31, 2016 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2016 2016 sucked in many ways. But there was beautiful music to be heard in the midst of the year’s ugliness.
Nov 19, 2016 Best of Opus Politics Pop Culture The Perils (and Positives) of Politicizing Pop Culture Pop culture nerdery won’t save the union but it could help us understand each other a little better.
Jul 27, 2016 Best of Opus Nerdery TV What might happen in season two of Stranger Things? Also, some more thoughts about why, exactly, the show is so powerful and endearing for me.
Jun 15, 2016 Best of Opus Music Religion The Church Needs Music That’s More Than Just “Positive and Encouraging” If the Bible has room for Job, Psalm 88, and Lamentations, then the Church’s music should have room for such content, too.
Apr 20, 2016 Best of Opus Religion Youth Group Nostalgia Can Be Bittersweet As I’ve heard more stories from folks my age about their church experiences, I realize how fortunate I was as a kid.