For the past 21 years, I’ve taught at historically Black colleges, and several times during those years the theater department has either hosted or produced a...
TV and film
Browse through a collection of commentaries and reflections that look at modern television and film—from The Chosen to Star Wars—through a Catholic lens.
Read Broken Signposts By N. T. Wright (HarperOne, 2020) In Broken Signposts, N. T. Wright reveals fresh insights into the story of Jesus Christ in the Gospel...
I have little to no interest in “Christian films.” I find most boring and trite, seldom saying anything that feeds my soul. Neat or sanitized affirmations of...
Read The Great Belonging By Charlotte Donlon (Broadleaf Books, 2020) “The book you are holding does not aim to cure your loneliness,” states the foreword of...
Black Lives Matter. In 2013 Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi crafted the phrase. It was a cry, a protest, and a new way of political organizing...
Parents with more than one child know this already: Babies show up with personalities, differences, and strong attitudes toward broccoli, music, and siblings...
The movie Hillbilly Elegy arrived in theaters just a few days after the 2020 presidential election was decided. It started streaming on Netflix two weeks later...
Recently, my wife and I watched the much-discussed Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. It features a parade of Silicon Valley insiders making confessions...
Read Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents By Isabel Wilkerson (Random House, 2020) Caste. For most Americans, the word seems foreign. This is because it...
An HBO Max three-part docuseries, Expecting Amy, and the final season of the award-winning and oft-Emmy-nominated Schitt’s Creek (a Canadian Broadcasting...
