I don’t talk movies at this blog. I’ll send you somewhere else for that.

With enviable pith, Travis considers 14 upcoming blockbusters.

If I insist on understanding something before I’ll let myself think it’s good, then almost everything will be ruled out, including God.

If you criticize and mock something you admit you don’t understand, aren’t you just blaming others for your own ignorance and perplexity?

If good Christian artists tend toward the fringes of my kind of faith, what’s the problem—them or the center they’re avoiding?

The compassion innate in having someone—however remote—verbalize your despair or lend a form to it can salve the jibbering psyche.

Mary Karr, Sinners Welcome, 74