I’ve got a new article up on the IVP blog! Bev and I have enjoyed watching The Good Place but the finale rang rather hollow for us. Also it’s depiction of the afterlife touches on a common trope of Heaven turning out to be boring – I unpack why the Biblical vision of Heaven will […]
Back in the summer, Brad East made the case that some Christians over-egg the idea of “engaging with pop culture”, while Matthew Lee Anderson advises anyone who will listen to “ditch Netflix”. It’s definitely possible to overindulge in the passive consumption of entertainment, so I share their concerns to a degree. But there are also […]
Binge, noun, “a period of excessive or uncontrolled indulgence”. Last night I finished watching season 3 of hit Netflix show Stranger Things. It was lots of fun – scares, humour and plenty of endearingly nerdy characters. There are some pacing issues but it’s a stylish adventure, with heartfelt themes of friendship and empathy overcoming darkness. […]
In the digital age, there’s a particular pleasure to seeing an article in print, and I was delighted to be published in a recent edition of the Christian Research Journal with my article Choose Your Own Enchantment: Freedom and Conscience in What We Watch. We must choose wisely which stories we allow to enchant us. […]
My article on Captain America 2, Agents of Shield and the challenges of telling stories in a shared fictional universe is now up on the Hodderscape blog! Beware of spoilers for the film and tv show. Nick Fury Must Die: Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD vs the Franchise on Hodderscape.
