The Tyranny of the Unasked-For Song A Christian review of John Cassara’s “Loudcasting: The Tyranny of Unwelcome Music,” and a plea for the recovery of quiet ❧ ✦ ❧ Introduction: The Essay We Should Have Written Somewhere this evening, a family is trying to say grace over a restaurant meal while a speaker mounted ten…
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The World’s Most Studied Nothing: Rockets, Radar, Drones, and an Invisible Bubble: A Forensic Examination of Skinwalker Ranch
Seven Seasons, Zero Photographs: The Skinwalker Ranch Problem ❧ ✦ ☙ Introduction: The Most Studied Place on Earth Somewhere in Utah’s Uinta Basin, on 512 acres of sagebrush, red sandstone, and irrigated pasture southeast of the town of Ballard, there may be more scientific instruments per acre than at any other privately owned cattle ranch…
Parked on the Platform: Ed Young’s Rolls-Royce, “Christ’s Playbook,” and the Gospel of the Showroom
Does it look like Madison Avenue? Testing a Megachurch Stunt Against Scripture Introduction: Two Ways to Enter a Sanctuary There are two ways to make an entrance into a house of worship. One is on a borrowed colt, exactly as the prophet foretold: “lowly, and riding upon an ass” (Zechariah 9:9). The other is behind…
Born to Save the World: Tom Cruise, Scientology, and the Smile That Sells
Stardom, Faith, and the Price of the Hero Myth ❖ ❖ ❖ Introduction: The Man Who Refused to Fall On a warm August evening in 2024, a sixty-two-year-old man leapt from the roof of the Stade de France, abseiled into a packed Olympic stadium, took an American flag from a gymnast and a mayor, and…
