Articles by Year

2025

• 32 Books for 32 Years

2024

• 31 Albums for 31 Years

2023

• 30 Films for 30 Years

• The Dead Speak!: Reading with the Jedi (Article for Mere Orthodoxy)

2022

• Looking for Bedford Falls … in The Terminal (Reprinted by FilmFisher in 2026)

• Looking for Bedford Falls … on The Truman Show (Reprinted by FilmFisher in 2026)

• Introduction to Bruised Reeds

• The Bronze Serpent: Wonder Woman andWonder Woman 1984 (Chapter in Movies from the Mountaintop)

2021

• In Praise of “The Little Drummer Boy”

• Black Widow (Review for FilmFisher)

• Wonder Woman and the Bronze Serpent (Article for FilmFisher; Reprinted in 2025)

• A Prayer for Inauguration Day, Revisited

2020

• Arsenic and Old Lace (Review for FilmFisher)

• Anatomy of an Animated Adventure: Atlantis and Treasure Planet (Article for FilmFisher)

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars Finale (Review for FilmFisher)

• What About Oscar? Some Thoughts on the Academy Awards (Article for FilmFisher)

2019

• Spider-Man: Far From Home (Review for FilmFisher)

• A Toy’s Telos, Chapter 2: How the Vision Was Won, and Lost (Article for FilmFisher; Reprinted in 2025)

• A Toy’s Telos, Chapter 1: The Moral Vision of Toy Story (Article for FilmFisher; Reprinted in 2025)

• Avengers: Endgame (Review for FilmFisher; Reprinted in 2025)

2018

• 25-4-25 (1/3): Films

• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Review for FilmFisher)

• In Search of True Justice: A Conversation on the Dark Knight Trilogy (Article for FilmFisher, Co-Written with Timothy Lawrence)

• An Ode to Po: Celebrating Goodness in the Kung Fu Panda Trilogy (Article for FilmFisher; Reprinted in 2025)

• Ant-Man and the Wasp (Review for FilmFisher)

• Inside A Scene: The Bourne Supremacy (Article for FilmFisher)

• Peace In Our Time: A Conversation on Marvel and Star Wars (Article for FilmFisher, Co-Written with Timothy Lawrence)

• Avengers: Infinity War (Review for FilmFisher)

• Brother Bear (Review for FilmFisher; Reprinted in 2026)

2017

• Watching High Noon: A Case Study in Christian Film Criticism

• "The Grace That I Talk About on All of My Records": How Andy Mineo Raps the Gospel

• Lost Tails and Bruised Reeds: The Grace of Divine Discipline and the Joy of True Repentance

• The Fantastic Un-Repentance of Mr. Fox

• Of Love and Lightbulbs: VeggieTales and the Power/Folly of the Gospel

• A Prayer for Inauguration Day

• The Stuff of Earth: Rich Mullins' "If I Stand" and a Brief Theology of Creation

Articles by Tags

Notebook Entries by Categories

• ANNOUNCEMENTS

• EDUCATION & TEACHING

• FILM & TELEVISION

• LISTS

• MUSIC

• MUSINGS

• PROJECTS & CREATIONS

• READING

• WRITING

Notebook Entries by Tags

A

• academia

• acting

• Allberry, Sam

• Aristotle

• arts (general)

• Ash, Christopher

• attentiveness

B

• Bacsó, Péter

• Batman

• being present

• Benedict Option

• Berry, Wendell

• Big Idea

• Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

• books and literature (general)

• Borges, Jorge Luis

• burnout

• business

C

• Casey, Edward S.

• CCM (Contemporary Christian Music)

• Challies, Tim

• Chang, Faith

• Chapman, Steven Curtis

• charity

• chiasms and parallelisms

• Christmas

• Christology

• church life

• citizenship

• civics

• Coen, Joel and Ethan

• collaboration

• community

• counseling

• craft

• criticism

• Crouch, Andy

• culture change

D

• death and dying

• democracy

• DeYoung, Kevin

• Dreher, Rod

• Du Bois, W. E. B.

E

• ecclesiology

• efficiency

• Ellison, Ralph

• eschatology

• evangelicalism

F

• film scores

• FilmFisher

• food

• Foreman, Jon

• forgiveness

• friendship

• fundamentalism

G

• Gable Price and Friends

• Gambon, Michael

• Ghost Ship

• Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein

• Groves, Sara

• Guite, Malcolm

H

• Hamilton, Alexander

• Harry Potter

• Hawthorne, Nathaniel

• heaven

• Herbert, George

• hermeneutics and reading ethics

• hero’s journey

• hip-hop

• Hisaishi, Joe

• history

• Hitchcock, Alfred

• home

• Howard, James Newton

• humanities

• Humble Beast

• humility

• Hungary

I

• idealism

• in memoriam

• individualism

• institutions (Christian)

• institutions (general)

J

• Jacobs, Alan

• Jägerstätter, Franz and Fani

• Job

• justice

K

• Kimball, Christopher

• Klimo, Mike

• Kung Fu Panda

L

• Lawrence, Timothy

• leadership

• Letterboxd

• Lewis, C. S.

• logic and reasoning

• Lopez, Barry

• love

• Lucas, George (see also: Star Wars)

M

• Machen, J. Gresham

• Malick, Terrence

• maps

• marriage

• Mars Hill Music

• McNease, Heath

• McQuarrie, Christopher

• MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

• Meador, Jake

• media (general)

• MercyMe

• Mere Orthodoxy

• Milton, John

• missiology

• Mission: Impossible

• Miyazaki, Hayao

• Murray, David

N

• narratives and storytelling

• nationalism

• nature

• Nolan, Christopher

• nonfiction (general)

• NPR (National Public Radio)

O

• Ortlund, Gavin

• Ortlund, Ray

P

• patience

• patriotism

• Paul the Apostle

• Peanuts

• perfectionism

• Pirates of the Caribbean

• place

• Plato

• Poe, Edgar Allan

• poetry (general)

• politics

• pragmatism

• prayer

• Prior, Karen Swallow

• Propaganda (artist)

R

• relationships (general)

• rest

• Rhee, David

• rhetoric

• Robinson, Marilynne

S

• Sahl, Mort

• Sanctus Real

• Sanders, Fred

• science

• Shyamalan, M. Night

• social media

• Spider-Man

• Spielberg, Steven

• Star Wars (see also: George Lucas)

• Steinbeck, John

• suffering

T

• Taylor, Charles

• technology

• telos

• ten songs

• Tenth Avenue North

• Thanksgiving

• theological liberalism

• theological retrieval

• theological triage

• theology (general)

• tradition

• Trinity

• tripartite soul

• Tuan, Yi-Fu

V

• VeggieTales

• virtues and moral formation

• Vischer, Phil

W

• Walt Disney Animation

• Washington, Booker T.

• Welch, Edward T.

• Westerns

• Williams, John

• work and vocation

Z

• Zinsser, William

Poetry by Year

2016

• Geocaching with Grant

• Pennies

• Borgesian

• Drums

• Panda

• Hymn

• Want

• Incarnate

• Utility

• Say

• Roads

• Ezekiel

• Lessons

• Sabbath

• Ground

• Song

• Yet

• Fault

2015

• Ghost Art (Inspired by The Great Divorce)

• The Last Baptism

• Grasshoppers

• Leonard Maltin's 2012 Movie Guide (A Found Poem)

• Early Risers