Editor's note: Agendas Aside, a Think Christian series on homosexuality and the church, also includes pieces by Neil de Koning, Joshua Walters, Glenn Goodfellow and Jason E. Summers. People aren’t quite sure what to do with The Wise Kids. An independent coming-of-age drama about members of a church youth group…  [more]

“Every curse, lie, violation of our lives / Every careless error of breath, corruption of our minds All the blood and the shame, defamation of name / The weight of a wicked world Embodied on a thankless crucifix / Embodied on a blood-soaked crucifix” So opens True Defiance, the sixth…  [more]

Last year my husband and I joined our friends in a 200-seat theater to hear a relatively unknown band called The Civil Wars. This was before the Grammys and before their collaboration with Taylor Swift for the Hunger Games soundtrack. I hadn’t heard much about the duo before this show…  [more]

When I co-wrote Besides the Bible, a collection of essays about books my co-authors and I think every Christian should read, our hopes for the project were modest. We wanted to encourage followers of Jesus to talk about books, especially the really good books. “This is not a list of…  [more]

I recently came across two interviews with Frank Langella discussing his memoir Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them. I first saw Langella on the Tavis Smiley Show and then Charlie Rose the next night. Both times I watched with great fascination as Langella talked as much…  [more]