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Reading Journal 2023: This Time TomorrowAuthor: Emma Straub I love time travel. I love books about time travel. A book about a father who wrote a book about time travel and a daughter who finds herself caught up in her fathers time travel stories feels tailor made for me. Add to this the fact thatContinue reading “Reading Journal 2023: This Time Tomorrow”

Reading Journal 2023: OutlawedAuthor: Anna North Outlawed is a feminist alternative (neo) western. The setting is early America and barren women are being outcast from society, labeled witches and curses and a blight on society’s need to progress. The book, as is expected positions religion as the backdrop, marrying it to the politics of suchContinue reading “Reading Journal 2023: Outlawed”

Film Journal 2023: Are You There God, Its Me MargaretDirected by Kelly Fremon Craig One of the best coming of age stories to release in a while. Honest and authentic to its core. Perfectly captures what it is to go through puberty with all its uncertainty and struggles, and does so with grace and sensitivityContinue reading “Film Journal 2023: Are You There God, Its Me Margaret”

Film Journal 2023: Fast XDirected by Louis LeterrierWherr to watch: now playing in theaters I have an interesting relationship with the Fast franchise. I mostly ignored it up until the point when we adopted our then 13 year old son back in 2015. Truth be told, navigating life with a kid who doesn’t speak EnglishContinue reading “Film Journal 2023: Fast X”

Someone recently forwarded me this Podcast Episode on music and the emergence of A.I, reflecting on it from a philosophical perspective. It hit on some things I’ve been observing and thinking about lately. The discussion relating to music is, of course, not dissimilar to discussions going on in film. A first point of interest fromContinue reading “AI, The Future, and What it Means to be Human”

A while back I was opened up to the idea that the whole of scripture is ultimately hyperlinking back to Genesis 1-9, and then later on to th Exodus story (which functions as a hyperlink back to Genesis 1-9). I was taught that to properly meditate on the scriptures and the biblical story it involvesContinue reading “Sodom and Gomorrah and The Flood: Parallels in Story and Structure”

Continuing to read in Bryan Magee’s book Ultimate Questions, and came across a common philosophical assertion within philosophy that I continue to find a bit wanting He’s talking about the nature of knowledge in relationship to time and space. More specifically he is dealing with how it is that we can claim to know transcendentContinue reading “Knowledge, Language and the Existence of God”

Film Journal 2023: Love AgainDirected by Jim StrouseWhere to watch: now playing at Polo Park Theater Took a chance on this romantic comedy by the Director of the powerful and engrossing Grace is Gone while everyone else was at the new Guardians. It turns out its pretty charming. It takes a casual approach to theContinue reading “Film Journal 2023: Love Again”

I have long been interested in the subject of architecture, and specifically its relationship to matters of the human experience and our relationship to God and one another. This is connected of course to a fascination with and passion for the idea of the city (which also brings with it interesting points of historical studyContinue reading “The City and the act of New Creation: Where Architecture Meets The Biblical Story”

Film Journal 2023: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3Directed by James GunnWhere to watch: now playing in theaters When the first Guardians film came out it was a bit of a novelty. It represented a slight break from the Marvel formula, allowing Gunn to put his personal touch on a relatively unknown story about aContinue reading “Film Journal 2023: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”