By Alex Sosler Like most of life, I didn’t have the sense to know what decision I was making. I watched May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers a few years prior. It portrayed thoughtful, beautiful, compelling relationships. It displayed redemptive hopes and real fears, leaving and returning home. I thought because the…
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Every Second is a Gift: Wally West and the Wisdom of Counting Our Days
By Matthew Brake In 2011, DC relaunched all of their comics, throwing out decades of backstory (mostly) in order to become accessible to new readers; however, this had the unfortunate side effect of erasing a number of fan favorite “legacy” characters from DC’s stories, one of whom was Wally West, protege of the Silver Age…
“The Trip” as a Christian Pilgrimage
By David Armstrong I’ve done a relatively terrible job at keeping up with popular culture recently. I suppose that’s a strange way to put the matter, because it is not really a major thing to keep up with, ordinarily speaking, and my reasons for being out of the loop are traditionally respectable ones: marriage, fatherhood,…
WANDAVISION and a Biblical Approach to Processing Grief
By Christopher Cummings Appearances are deceiving in the new Disney+ drama WANDAVISION. Set in the aftermath of the latest Avengers movie, Wanda Maximoff and her android beaux Vision enjoy domestic life in the suburbs of New Jersey… despite Vision’s heroic death several years prior. Unbeknownst to Wanda, she’s using her supernatural gifts to avoid her grief…
“I want to tell you a different story”: Hope Parallels in The Walking Dead and The Resurrection
By Justin Martin *Warning: minor spoilers for Seasons 2, 4, 5, and 9. “Why is he up there addressing the people like that?” This was one of my first thoughts when I saw Siddiq on stage addressing the people of the kingdom (Season 9, Episode 15), arguably the most devastating loss among The Walking Dead…
Voldemort Fears Death and Dumbledore Does Not: A Decisive Difference
By Jack Holloway “For me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” (Phil. 1:21) I finished reading the Harry Potter books in 2017. I was denied them as a kid, and so enjoyed them for the first time as an adult. I am actually glad of this, because as an adult I saw…
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil in Game of Thrones
By Matthew William Brake [SPOILERS!!!] In the Christian circles I run in, there is some tension about whether Christian people should watch Game of Thrones because of some of the graphic, and specifically sexual, content (go over to the Popcorn Theology Facebook page if you don’t believe me). It is true that Game of Thrones…
Children, Death, and the Journey: Luke 9:37-48 in Conversation with Logan
By Kyle Sears [WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!] In Logan, Hugh Jackman ends a seventeen year run as Wolverine, a mutant with advanced healing ability and member of the X-Men. With a skeleton protected by adamantium – and retractable claws to match – Wolverine ruthlessly channeled his rage by fighting against people who threatened the security of…
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