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Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott writes about pop culture at jimmcdermott.substack.
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
Catholics: You should pay for your own Netflix account
Netflix is the service that has most invested in building a library of faith-based stories. And isn’t that worth supporting?
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
The misfits of HBO Max’s ‘Somebody Somewhere’ are the kind of loving community we go to church looking for
“Somebody Somewhere” is not a show about religion, but it is in its own way an exploration of what a truly religious community offers—namely, a space of radical acceptance.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholics: Please keep wearing your masks
The Biden administration’s mask mandate for public transportation has been struck down, and people are now free to do whatever they want on planes and trains. But what should we choose to do?
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The Gospel of John has been used to justify anti-Semitism—so we should stop reading it on Good Friday
“The Jews” didn’t kill Jesus. And if the Gospel of John makes people think that, we should read a different Gospel on Good Friday.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Is Pope Francis prepping for doomsday in the church? I hope so.
The institutional Catholic Church as we currently experience it is simply not going to be able to survive, and yet much of our leadership seems content to blame the messenger and insist on business as usual. So what to do?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Feel like you’ve failed this Lent? Maybe that’s the point.
I wish I could say I had some advice on how to do Lent better. But I also wonder if a certain sense of failure during Lent is actually a good thing.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
President Zelensky’s love of Ukraine is at the heart of ‘Servant of the People’
Watching “Servant of the People,” I find myself called to gratitude, hope and mourning.
Posted inFaith, Lent Reflections
In this time of Lenten sacrifice, don’t forget God’s promise of abundance
A Reflection for the Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, by Jim McDermott
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘The Power of the Dog’ review: Do we really need another film that identifies L.G.B.T. people with trauma?
The film mostly reinforces a longstanding and problematic trope.