On God’s Love for the Damned

I have started a site on Academia.Edu where my papers that are of a more theological bent (and thus don’t always fit with the alien / RPG content we have here) can have a place to live on the interwebs. In recent years, it has become fashionable in theological circles to “reasonably hope” that every […]

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Western Mythological Cinematic Universe

A lesson for Christian artists from King Arthur In American culture, for the longest time action / super heroic entertainment consisted of characters that were neither religious or nor not religious, but just safety secular. Meanwhile religious entertainment has God-believing characters but had to always have a moral, not be too violent or too ridiculous, […]

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Beautiful 3.30.2024

Lead Article – Watching Kong on Holy Saturday I think the 2005 King Kong has just become one of my top-10 movies. The cinematography is gorgeous – which is a must for a movie about beauty in a savage world. The movie’s power is in three savage worlds clashing into each other – one a […]

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Let it Be

I know the song officially refers to Paul’s mother, Mary. But it’s hard to not also think about Mama Mary.  “Do whatever He tells you.”, then Let it be. 

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Godzilla and God

There is a scene in Godzilla: King of Monsters where King Ghidorah stands in glory over a volcano. Urban carnage surrounds him on all signs and the camera backs up to show a Cross in the foreground. A cross that seems powerless to stop Earth’s new god. Religion makes a few other interesting moments in […]

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