Author Archives: davetcourt

Looking back at my reflections for the first quarter of 2025, I can see some steady themes emerging, guiding my journey into the second half of this present season. Themes about finding ones place in the world. Finding ones place through a life of particiipation in a world where we find both the sacred andContinue reading “My 2025 Reading Journey: Reflections on the Second Quarter”

(Spoiler Warning For Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later) Ruminations on death, politics and masculinity. These might not be the sort of themes one might expect from a zombie film, but in 28 Years Later, which sees Danny Boyle affectionately returning to the famed franchise, all three of these themes are woven in to what couldContinue reading “28 Years Later: Exploring Themes of Death, Politics and Masculinity Through the Evolution of the Zombie”

Author Helen Lewis’ recent book titled The Genius Myth is an interesting deep dive into a reality we all experience but might not have given much thought to or recognize. Yascha Mounk has an interesting interview on The Good Fight (titled Helen Lewis on The Genius Myth) for anyone who wants to get a goodContinue reading “What Is a Genius and Why Does it Matter: Revelation, Representative, and The Great Lie of the Modern Age in Helen Lewis’ The Genius Myth”

Its rare for my small corner of the city of Winnipeg, the historic neighborhood of St. Johns, a once bustling Ukrainian migration spot still dotted by the grand Cathedrals marking each corner, and still home of the oldest Public Library in the city, a focal point for the almagamation of this once town into theContinue reading “The Places We Live, The Places To Which We Are Drawn: How A Quiet Morning and an Unsuspecting Breeze Awakened My Imagination”

In his book, I Am Part of Infinity: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein, author Kieran Fox talks about how Einstein’s “spirituality was mocked and misunderstood during his lifetime,” and worse yet buried and “all but forgotten” by modernitys growing hostility in a post-enlightnement era. This book was en effort to understand why that was.Continue reading “Einstein and the Question of Infinity: Exploring The Nature of the Spiritual Journey”

Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. (James 3:1) Sometimes it is the small things, the small moments, the small points and ideas, that turn out to be the most compelling. One of these small points/ideas has found me in a space ofContinue reading “Will Teachers in the Church Be Judged More Strictly By God?: Rethinking James 3:1”

Anatole: Does your Bible oppose slavery? Liesel: I oppose slavery. Wes Anderson’s films are no stranger to exploring philosophical and existential questions. Beyond the dark humor, the quirkiness and the singularity of his unique style, lies much bigger questions about life, the world, and at times God. His latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, follows theContinue reading “The Phoenician Scheme: Finding God in the World”

Having recently finished Ian Nathan’s biographical work on the famous Spanish filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro, I couldn’t help but note the overlap between Percy’s Bink Bolling and Del Toro’s own storied history. Boiling is a man caught between the devout dogmatism of his mother’s side and the cynicism and skepticism of his father’s side, findingContinue reading “The Moviegoer: Finding the Search For Truth in Walker Percy’s Imagination”

I have no idea how Macfarlane would feel about this basic matter of fact, but his works have been greatly influential for the way I understand my faith in God. As far as I know Macfarlane would categorize as a naturalist, albeit one who flirts with the appearance of a kind of pantheism (he hasContinue reading “Are Rivers Alive: How Macfarlane Has Influenced My Faith In God”

Both sets of my Grandparents have since passed, given now to the problematic nature of memory. Memory is a subject of which I’ve long been fascinated by. Some of that is rooted in an experience. Previous posts in this space have outlined that, but the summarized version is- I had what I call a WordContinue reading “Do Our Lives, Our Actions Make a Difference? How Can We Know?”