Essay Collections

Manifesto

Some of my core values and passions in essay form.

Film

Write-ups about assorted films I've enjoyed thinking about.

Culture

Unpacking the way movies find the language for what the world is feeling and processing.

Essay Archive

The Last Supper Holy War, Mocking God, and Outcasts at The Table

July 30, 2024

"What's The Movie Trying to Say?" - Art as Communication & Experience

April 18, 2024

Taking The Shot: Civil War and The Violent Power of Image

April 16, 2024

My Top 20 Cinematic Sequences of 2023

January 1, 2024

Musings on Christmas Eve in Stories

December 25, 2023

A Kingdom of Tea & Strangers: The Work of L'Abri Fellowship

November 22, 2023

Community Nourishes Art: Making 'A Kingdom of Tea & Strangers'

November 14, 2023

The Eras Tour is a Multiverse Movie

October 26, 2023

10 Years of The Weekly Planet Podcast

September 22, 2023

The Virtues and Vices of Fan Films

September 13, 2023

Greta Gerwig & Metamodern Meaning Within the Machine

September 6, 2023

Aliens, Atom Bombs, and Artificial Intelligence in 2023

August 8, 2023

Kiki's Delivery Service and The Gift Economy

July 17, 2023

Reading The Bible Like Watching Foreign Cinema

July 5, 2023

Virtual (Escape) From Reality

June 27, 2023

Wes Anderson, Flanderization, and The Curse of AI Art

June 19, 2023

The Metamodernity of 'The Last Jedi'

June 5, 2023

Musings on 'Background Content'

April 19, 2023

Only The Muppets Can Save The Oscars

April 13, 2023

The Broken Brotherhoods of Post-Pandemic Cinema

April 7, 2023

What happens when "propaganda" is deeply human?

March 27, 2023

The Lost Sacrament of The Cinema

March 7, 2023

Love, Niceness, and The Banshees of Inisherin

January 20, 2023

The Chosen, Good Christian Movies, and The Evangelical Identity

September 8, 2022

Pixar's UP and Remembering My Grandfather's Legacy

May 19, 2020

How Disney Theme Park Design Shaped Zelda: Breath of The Wild

May 15, 2020

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