It’s just so pretty. Amazon’s knockout series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel swept the Emmys, pocketed two Golden Globe awards, and was just renewed for its third...
Arts & Culture
“Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.” With these words, the first of Corita Kent’s “Rules,” she burst into my life as an impish, holy...
You know there’s something in the air when two movies on the same topic hit the theaters within a few months of each other. That’s what happened last year with...
When racists bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963, four young girls attending Sunday school were killed and another 22 people were injured. It was one...
“Any major new technology will create a lacuna in social and ethical thought in direct proportion to its novelty,” writes philosopher Bernard Rollin in his...
Christian witches? What’s next? Married bachelors? Square circles? A combination of disbelief, mockery, and genuine concern for the souls of those who might...
Often, the acting is awkward, the plots shopworn, the wardrobes odd, and the holiday decorations tacky. The scripts are hardly witty and what passes for humor...
My nomination for the most important movie of 2018 has a plot that doesn’t involve superheroes or space travel, and its production didn’t involve any of the...
I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me (Exod...
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú (Riverhead Books, 2018) It’s become almost cliché in books and films that the...
