Culture

Japanese animation has become a media mainstay among Gen Z. You may not “get” it, but the zoomers at your church sure do.

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson plays out the dangers of extremism.

In his new Netflix movie, Ruth is a singer, Boaz has an MBA, and the Tennessee wine flows freely.

What baseball’s most amusing team gets right about joy in sports.

Why fans love a game designed to break their hearts.

On Twitch streams and in Discord chats, “nerd culture” ministers reach out to a demographic long misunderstood by the church.

Video-game developers, speculative fiction authors, and table-top enthusiasts got together to play at an expo for “Christian storytellers in popular culture.”

The Broadway actress turned singer-songwriter talks about her new album and the value of sacred music outside of Sunday mornings.

The enormously popular Christian artist says he experienced miraculous healing. His parasocial friends say “amen.”

The social media “Jesus glow” trend is just another kind of prosperity gospel.

From Gregorian chants to CCM megahits, we need music that confronts us with the gospel’s strangeness.

Caravaggio’s cinematic realism and psychological depth did more than unsettle taste in his own time.

Superhero stories like Superman and Fantastic Four depict a moral clarity that’s helpful for our kids.

At the Christian summer camp Deerfoot, young men are transformed by wilderness and “trail talk” relationships.

On Korea’s 80th Liberation Day, I exhort fellow evangelicals to view Korea and Japan’s relationship through one of Jesus’ parables.