Arts & Culture
Music during wartime
David Byrne reminds me that however bleak things seem, singing and dancing together are morally serious acts.
Other people’s greatness
I want to be like David Lynch. And my pastor. And my wife. But there aren’t enough hours in the day.
Saved by bad art
As AI continues to proliferate, I’ve been inviting my students to create something—anything.
Underground apocalypse
In three current series—Paradise, Silo, and Fallout—bunkers owned by billionaires dictate the options for post-apocalyptic existence.
Holy uprising
I’ve long seen the ascension story as an absurdity. John Donne helps me see it as a revolution.
Michael Jackson and the boys we don’t talk about
We reached consensus on Epstein and Cosby. Why are we buying tickets to see Michael?
A vampire and a Lutheran pastor in Blackfeet country
Stephen Graham Jones’s theologically inflected horror novel just might be his masterpiece.
Noah’s ark in Armenia’s religious imagination
In the church of my ancestors, even the architecture pays homage to the resonance of the flood story.