Teaching Freedom of Faith to a New Generation
I cover the upcoming Faith and Liberty Discovery Center, and its mission to revive appreciation for religious liberty. "Local Projects, a...
New Year’s Eve? Or New Year’s with the New Eve?
I wrote this piece last year for New Year's Eve/The Feast of Mary, Mother of God. It wasn't published, so I'm putting it up this year on...
"First Reformed" Preaches the Bad News
"There’s a kernel of an interesting religious film in First Reformed, the new arthouse release from writer-director Paul Schrader...
Bedecking the Bride of Christ at the Met
"The best plaque at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibit Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination has little to do with...
Resisting the Voice of Thanos
I made another appearance on the podcast God and Comics, this accompanied by my wife Leah Libresco Sargeant, chatting with a geeky priest...
Sacred Art as an Antidote to Pornography
I profiled the sculptor Dony Mac Manus, and he told me about how he sees his figural art as a way to help heal a pornified culture. He...
The Divine (Situational) Comedy
"The Good Place is the most unexpectedly profound show on television. NBC’s afterlife sitcom, which just concluded its second season,...
Prisoners are Not Animals
"We will not make our culture healthier or our children safer by treating the sexual assault of prisoners as normal, or funny, or just....
Suffering in the Shadowlands
"The script, based on Lewis’s book A Grief Observed, tells how Joy Davidman, a brash American convert, barrelled into C.S. Lewis’s...
Re-Enchanting Silicon Valley
"Despite their commitment to the idea that genuine community can exist on the internet, many rationalists have affirmed the importance of...
