Not every love story is a romance. Some love stories—the ones rooted in reality and humanity—are also stories of the cultural fissures in a particular historic...
Culture in Context
Culture in Context articles bridge pop culture and personal faith. The essays dive into movies, TV shows, and more to unpack valuable lessons and questions.
Almost from its beginnings, the U.S. movie industry has been associated with liberal politics. In the 1930s, most of Hollywood’s actors actively supported...
How do you teach someone who doesn’t want to learn? You might look for new ways to engage people who, at best, are indifferent to your message and at worst...
The American Revolution (PBS), directed and produced by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt, is not only smart, but also wise. The Federalist and the...
Martin Scorsese’s first feature film, Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (1967), was panned because Harvey Keitel’s gangster character exhibited what one critic...
There are few more energizing contemporary figures than Billie Jean King. Wimbledon tennis champion at the age of 17, winner of 39 major championship titles...
You know the story. Small-town girl achieves high-powered career success in the big city but can’t find true happiness until she comes back home. No one likes...
I’ve always been a big fan of what economists call the public sector. I could dress up that enthusiasm with fancy language about “solidarity” and the “common...
“Have you seen The Chosen?” When the streaming series first began in 2019, this was an innocuous question. But now, the same question can feel like a litmus...
“Until the lion tells the story, the hunter will always be the hero,” says an African proverb. It’s time that Indigenous Americans told their own stories—and...
