Stephen Graham Jones’s new novel creates an extraordinary portrait of sacrifice and costly reconciliation.
Eve Tushnet
Eve Tushnet is the co-founder of Building Catholic Futures, a nonprofit equipping Catholic institutions to serve and share the Gospel with LGBT+ people. She is the author of two books about gay Christian spiritual lives, and two novels.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
She was Paris’s most famous courtesan. Then she found God.
For Liane de Pougy life was a banquet, and she took seconds of every dish.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Don’t hide from the sins of St. Louis
If our first instinct is to defend “the church,” have we really learned the lessons of the sexual abuse crisis?
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Joan of Arc’ is one weird work of hagiography
The director Bruno Dumont has said that movies can “look beyond the visible to explore something that reason can’t.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Blood Quantum’: a zombie film with a conscience
In “Blood Quantum,” the past isn’t dead—it’s coming to get you.
Posted inFaith, Features
What 12-step programs can teach us about the true meaning of work
The value of work is that it gives structure to life’s chaos; it is simple, intelligible even when your own heart is baffling; it lets you be of service to others, making every job well done a kind of living amends; and, above all, good work brings humility.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Saying goodbye to ‘BoJack Horseman’
The final season of “BoJack Horseman” gives many of its characters endings about as happy as they can manage.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Finding God in ‘The Warden,’ an Iranian prison drama and parable
The prison’s beauty suggests that God is here somewhere—not running the place, but hidden in its depths.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
The painful beauty in Terrence Malick’s ‘A Hidden Life’
With “A Hidden Life,” the writer and director Terrence Malick set himself a bold and perhaps impossible task: using all the visual resources of film to represent faith itself.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Knives Out’ Review: A whodunnit with a (thrilling) Gospel message
A Christie parody for Trump’s America, where the embodiment of chastising justice isn’t the detective but the scapegoat, is a strange, potentially powerful concept.