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The Thousand-Generation Test of Your Story
One of my favorite scenes in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is when Cooper lands on a water world orbiting so close to a black hole that every hour on its surface costs seven years on Earth. A gigantic wave kills a crewmate and swamps the...
Stuck in the Rebel Story
I was fascinated recently by an advertisement for yet another Robin Hood movie coming to theaters. The tagline attached to the trailer read, “In a land of kings, a rebel rises.” Andrew Garfield, as a young Robin Hood, was then seen wildly s...
Breaking the Spell of the Waste Land
A Conversation with Malcom Guite
Malcolm Guite has given us one of the best books of the year in Galahad and the Grail. It’s not just entertaining stories about knights and quests. He has pointed us to the elixir that can save civilization...
A Pro-Testosterone Christianity?
It was a Friday night, and like many other nights of the week in the family I was raised, I was sitting in a church.
It was a Friday night, and like many other nights of the week in the family I was raised, I was sitting in a church. In th...
Avengers Looks like AI, and That’s a Good Thing.
What comes next as technology changes the way we tell stories?
New trailers for another installation in Marvel’s Avengers franchise have hit the internet, producing among even the most diehard of Marvel movie fans questions about how much...
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I combine insights from science, philosophy, and theology to help people understand culture & live in a true story. | Author of BASED ON A TRUE STORY (HarperCollins/Nelson 2026)
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