The Rings of Power
By Hannah Matis
Caveat lector: The series is available to stream on Amazon Prime. I will do my best to avoid spoilers internal to the series, but miserere mei as I reckon with the nature of prequels.
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Some Theological Notes on The Wheel Of Time
By Sam Keyes
Robert Jordan’s sprawling 14-volume fantasy series, The Wheel of Time (WOT), has gained a new following with the start of Amazon Prime’s new television series of the same. It has also inspired ... Read More...
Streaming Catholicism: On “Midnight Mass”
Spoiler Warning: This essay discusses key plot points, including the ending, of Midnight Mass.
By Daniel Martins
One of the ongoing frustrations for people of faith is the way that religious practice is almost invariably portrayed in popular media. C... Read More...
Hard Lessons on Discipleship from Cobra Kai
By Terence Chandra
“It’s a tough world out there and I can help them be ready for it.”
— Johnny Lawrence
The last memory most priests have of their confirmation students is from the day of the rite itself — ... Read More...
Being a Potato Bug
Watching Mister Rogers with my children is a constant reminder of how impoverished our culture can be when it comes to childhood.
“Hell is Other People,” but Heaven Can’t Be: The Good Place’s Unintentionally Augustinian Outcome
With its final door, The Good Place proves useful for our journey once more: we cannot stop here, we must journey on.
God, Sex, and the Restless Hearts of Fleabag
Fleabag paints a nuanced portrait of the soul’s condition in the secular age.
Stranger Things 3: The Spirit of the Mall
Stranger Things 3 runs with the torch of kids’ adventure that we rarely see either in fiction or in the culture these days.