Star Line Chance the Rapper (Self-released, 2025) I am 45 years old, so my taste in music, especially hip-hop, is suspect to my teenage son’s generation. He...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
When a hockey player at an elite Catholic prep school dies of suicide, leaving a cryptic note referencing the death of another player 20 years earlier, student...
Nervous Systems By Sara Billups (Baker Publishing Group, 2025) Most of us have that one friend who can be dramatic, controlling, and anxious—but also warm...
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...
Elio Directed by Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina (Pixar, 2025) Featuring clones, aliens, and supercomputers, Elio is an out-of-this-world...
“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...
Talkin to the Trees Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts (Reprise, 2025) A friend of mine used to say, “The older I get the more like myself I get.” And that’s...
Rebecca Sue By Kathleen Norris (InterVarsity Press, 2025) Over several decades, Kathleen Norris has written multiple spiritual classics, all of which ground...
The phenomenon of “twin movies”—two or more films with strikingly similar plots or subject matter released in close proximity—is almost as old as Hollywood...
