Near the beginning of Meltdown, the four-part Netflix documentary series about the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant disaster, a scared-looking...
Culture in Context
Jesus never missed an opportunity to turn a meal into a meaningful encounter. He had a deep awareness of the transformative capacity of sharing food. Some of...
A century and a half ago, Jules Verne wrote Around the World in Eighty Days, and readers began to imagine that the world might be shrinking a wee bit. The new...
By now it’s become a cliché that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social and economic ills that America long swept under the rug. Low wages, weak workplace...
Who were you before you were born? Who will you be after you die? In church circles the responses to these questions might quickly move in the direction of...
Ted Lasso is teaching boys how to be men and men how to be good people. Right there on television, where the opposite usually happens. The American...
Did you know that if you’re a poor and unemployed single mother, before you can get any financial assistance from the government you must have a job? On top of...
Trees have friends. Trees talk to each other and send over resources when a neighbor is in need. Trees nurture their children. Trees sound the alarm about...
In September 2019, when Peter Nicks started shooting a documentary about the senior class at Oakland High School, he’d already made two award-winning films...
There’s a touching scene toward the end of the new documentary Who Are You, Charlie Brown? where Charles Schulz, the creator of the beloved Peanuts characters...
