In the new movie Sing Sing, John “Divine G” Whitfield (Colman Domingo) has nothing but time. Sentenced to the infamous Sing Sing Correctional Facility for a crime he didn’t commit,…
For José David Rodríguez, what began as a doctoral dissertation is now the first academic history of the Lutheran church by a Puerto Rican. Rodríguez’s new book, Caribbean Lutherans: The…
David Schaeffer’s book Letters from Sweden (Mercer University Press, 2023) isn’t an ordinary love story. For one thing, it’s told mainly in letters, most of them written by the author’s…
When we last left the personified feelings of Inside Out, they seemed to have everything together. In the 2015 Disney-Pixar animated film, Joy and Sadness (voiced by Amy Poehler and…
For children and families What If I Can’t Explain God? “God is hard to explain. I’ve tried asking grown-ups to explain God, but they aren’t very good at it.” These…
I was 4 years old when I saw my first horror movie. My parents loved to go to the movies, and this was the 1980s, when Freddie Kreuger, Michael Myers…
Editor’s note: Embracing Queer Family uses the term “Queer” to mean “anyone who does not identify as heterosexual and cisgender.” The authors acknowledge that not everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community…
At the end of the movie’s first act, the peaceful Eagle Clan we’ve followed through the opening 20 minutes of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is in ruins….
From almost the very beginning of our children’s lives, we invite them to make art: crayons, markers, paints and so many pieces of paper. When they get older, we encourage…
As a veteran photojournalist, Lee Smith (Kirsten Dunst) has had her share of adventures. But even she never expected to find herself pinned down by sniper fire in a dilapidated…
The Gospel of Luke recounts the risen Jesus appearing among his disciples on the evening of the resurrection and asking for something to eat. “People have talked a lot about…
Death is a common theme during Lent. The season opens with Ash Wednesday’s reminder that we are mortal and closes with the death of Christ himself on Good Friday. But…
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