Stories of Domestic Abuse
The recent BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Booker-nominated novel, Normal People, was lauded for the skill with which it brought Rooney’s candid, compelling story…
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Heaven Without God?: How a Fourth Century Theologian Solves the Dilemma of NBC’s ‘The Good Place’
[WARNING: This contains spoilers for the final episode of NBC’s The Good Place ] ‘Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try’, sang…
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Netflix’s ‘Marianne’ and the Little Man of God
‘He was not a bad man but he was also not a nice man either. I am not sure that being nice was actually…
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The Religious Turn in Fleabag
At the centre of the first season of the BAFTA-winning comedy Fleabag is the gleefully promiscuous eponymous protagonist, played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, whose answer to…
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Re-Enchantment and Post-Secularity in Game of Thrones
Question: What do Daenerys Targaryen, The Unburnt, Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons, and yourself—with fingers hovering idly over trackpad and eyes bouncing across…
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Review: How to Survive the Apocalypse
Alissa Wilkinson and Robert Joustra. How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids,…
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Reading in the Dark
“Why is it that you like to read such dark stories?” As a literature professor at a small evangelical Christian college, I often get…
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