Warning: This is all spoilers. I realize that an analysis of Hamilton is not the hot take it might have been two years ago, but if you for whatever reason haven’t seen it, don’t read this. Here’s a potentially awful essay idea: The hit musical Hamilton, especially the second act, is one of the best... Continue Reading →
An Uneasy Evangelical Looks at First Reformed
Watching Paul Schrader’s new contemplative picture First Reformed was a journey in anxiety. Not just because every stiffly bracketed frame, every groan of synthesizer, every exercise in revulsion the plot throws at the screen was designed to produce it. That’s true too. No, I was anxious because this was a movie about faith in general,... Continue Reading →