The Christian Century

Rectify is unlike any series I've watched. Its slow burn reveals the viewer as well as the characters in the story.

"What was the point of that movie?" my son asked, without hostility. He knew that what he'd seen was about more than what he'd seen.

Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street uses a combination of magic and realism that depicts real life far better than any other family television show I've seen.

The documentary Chaplains raises a fundamental issue for Christian chaplaincy: what is its relationship to the church?

It could have been any academic conference—except that Catwoman was on my left and a fully dressed hobbit was on my right.

I just got back from Disney World with my kids. The trip set me thinking about how stories get told and passed on.

It's hard to watch Straight Outta Compton and not think of #BlackLivesMatter. But this is not explicitly a movie about politics or race.

Theology and advertising share the same root.

A screen in a sanctuary used to be a signal that a congregation had taken a side in the worship wars. Now it's just a sign that a church is open and functioning.