The Bear Created by Christopher Storer (FX/Hulu, 2022–present) Protestant theologian Shelly Rambo once wrote, “Trauma is the suffering that does not go away...
TV and film
Who’d have thought that Oppenheimer—a sprawling, three-hour-long, demanding, and often disturbing movie about the physicist behind the first atom bomb—could...
Alone Created by Gretchen Palek, Shawn Witt, David George, and Brent Montgomery (History Channel, 2015–present) In 2015, the History Channel aired Alone, a...
Beef Created by Lee Sung Jin (Netflix, 2023) Broken people doing despicable things that they’d rather not do. Broken people who really want to lead good lives...
We are made for relationship. We are born into relationships. We seek relationships and struggle with relationships. We are disappointed by relationships...
This Armageddon is not the mythic final battle between one army that is consummately good and another that is demonically evil. Armageddon Time is a nuanced...
Barbie Directed by Greta Gerwig (Warner Bros., 2023) My mom worked as a toy illustrator at Mattel in the late 1990s and early 2000s. When I was little, Barbie...
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig (Gracie Films, 2023) Coming-of-age films are usually about men. There are more heroes than...
On the surface, the Catholic Church can seem downright staid and stuffy. Our ministers wear antique ceremonial garb and sometimes chant in a style that hasn’t...
The Last of Us Created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann (HBO, 2023) I rarely cry when watching television shows. I love the medium but don’t physically emote...
