On Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O’Connor, and what 'The Revenant' misses on purpose, over at Christianity Today.
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Taken As We Are
I wrote this reflection on rejection, resurrection, and Vincent Van Gogh for Mockingbird.
Read MoreFaith Not By Sight
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What Picasso's blind man needs is something that cannot be seen. He is seeking more than physical sustenance as he reaches for the bread and wine. He is grasping for what is truly essential.
Read MoreSearch for Purpose: Fleet Foxes’ most recent album is also their most honest
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While Sun Giant and Fleet Foxes were more like recitations of old legends – a subdued, peaceful collection of stories – Helplessness Blues is clearly a journey. It is a combination of deeper poetry and fuller sound. Pecknold’s voice is ethereal but also raw and hauntingly honest. Sun Giant and Fleet Foxes were closer to hymns, but Helplessness Blues is a supplication, a search for atonement and purpose.
Read MoreTrue Grit: Unlikely Redemption
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The Coen Brothers like to redeem the most unlikely people.
Read MoreDownward Spiral: Dave Eggers’ Chilling Apocalypse
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In an eerily familiar world, “unsubscribe” means betrayal, secrets are lies, alone time is escapism, leaving work after hours is treason, quality time is inefficient, tardy responses are attacks, and experiencing a moment but failing to live-document it is cheating humanity of information. “All that happens must be known” is The Circle’s mantra.
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