Arts & Culture
Episode 73: The Two Popes
Matt and Adam talk about the papacy, the burdens of ministry, and The Two Popes.
The story of Israeli prime minister Yitzak Rabin’s assassin
Incitement shows the roots of political fractures that remain.
Episode 72: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Matt and Adam discuss story, Christmas and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Queen and Slim challenges assumptions about race, justice, and what matters
Melinda Matsoukas’s film rolls terror and hope into one story.
A lapsed Catholic’s unexpected devotion
Searching for the Mary statue from her childhood, Sonja Livingston found much more.
Episode 71: It’s a Wonderful Life
Matt and Adam talk sacrifice, small-town life, Christmas movies, and the Frank Capra classic It's a Wonderful Life.
A look at faith in film over the last decade
At a time of rapid secularization, filmmakers seem intrigued—if sometimes also repelled—by religion.
The line between human and nonhuman
Alice Hoffman’s Holocaust novel collapses the boundaries between reality and fantasy.