The 2025 election of Pope Leo XIV has renewed audience interest in the recent film Conclave. When the film was released in late 2024, the last papal conclave had happened twenty years earlier and wasn’t the result of a papal death. The exteriors shot in Rome, the detailed costuming and the strong performances give Conclave a vivid sense…
In the preface to Rags of Light, Brian Walsh describes his new book as an attempt to “bring [Leonard] Cohen and Scripture together within the context of our present cultural realities and spiritual struggles and see what happens.” The book takes its shape from a series of lectures Walsh gave as part of an online…
Wildcat is the story of a fiercely devout artist who seeks to honour God through her art amid physical suffering and other challenges. Flannery O’Connor, who died in 1964 at age 39, is primarily known for short stories often classified as “Southern Gothic.” Some readers may hesitate to identify with her flawed characters, but they…
Freud’s Last Session is an imagined conversation between the psychologist Sigmund Freud and the author/theologian C. S. Lewis. The film uses the interaction to bring the work of these two men into a space where they comment on and critique one another. There is, of course, discussion on the limitations of religion and the problem…
In the age of music streaming services, listening to an entire album is becoming less common. Albums are structured around singles that will garner as much attention and radio play as possible or risk being forgotten. Paul Simon’s most recent album is the antithesis of such an approach. As noted on his official website, “Seven…
Black Panther is a fun, culturally savvy movie that is both critical of society and hopeful about its future. It uses all the tropes of the comic book movies that saturate the blockbuster market to offer up an empowering and positive portrayal of African culture. It will likely serve as a cultural touchstone for years to come.
How do we figure out who we are? And how do we find a space where we can truly be ourselves? It’s a learning process that goes on our whole lives. Moonlight explores these questions, through a window into three short periods of the life of a young African American man named Chiron.
You Want It Darker is Leonard Cohen’s last album of his lifetime. It treads the familiar territories of God, sex and death, but with the tone of a man who knows he’s nearing the end and has loosened his grip on them. They are all there, but not as in your face as they once were.
Communication is complicated. It always involves an attempt to mesh at least two ways of thinking that don’t line up.
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