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Brett McCracken

Brett McCracken is a Los Angeles-based journalist. He is the author of Hipster Christianity (2010) and Gray Matters (2013), and has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, CNN.com, the Princeton Theological Review, Mediascape, Books & Culture, Christianity Today, Relevant, IMAGE Journal, Q Ideas, and Conversantlife.com. A graduate of Wheaton College and UCLA, Brett currently works as managing editor for Biola Magazine and teaches at Biola University. Follow him on Twitter @brettmccracken.

By Brett McCracken

Don Draper is an Ad, Man

May 21st, 2015|5 min read

By Brett McCracken

What Proximity is Worth

May 4th, 2015|6 min read

By Brett McCracken

Things I’ve Learned From C.S. Lewis

November 21st, 2013|9 min read

By Brett McCracken

Lost At Sea, in Space, in the Cloud

November 7th, 2013|4 min read

By Brett McCracken

Body Politics in the Films of Steve McQueen

October 23rd, 2013|5 min read

By Brett McCracken

Album Review: Over the Rhine, 'Meet Me at the Edge of the World'

September 5th, 2013|6 min read

By Brett McCracken

Are You Free to NOT Drink?

July 18th, 2013|4 min read

By Brett McCracken

Selfie Deception

July 9th, 2013|6 min read

By Brett McCracken

Have Christians Lost Their Sense of Difference?

June 19th, 2013|5 min read

By Brett McCracken

Catching Up With Time in the “Before” and “Up” Films

June 1st, 2013|6 min read

By Brett McCracken

Summer Reading for College Graduates

May 23rd, 2013|5 min read

By Brett McCracken

To Malick’s “Wonder”

April 29th, 2013|5 min read

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By Brett McCracken

Gray Matters

March 12th, 2013|5 min read

By Brett McCracken

Ruminations on Joy

February 4th, 2013|7 min read

By Brett McCracken

Is Depiction Endorsement? Filmmaker Responsibility in "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Django Unchained"

January 16th, 2013|6 min read

By Brett McCracken

In Defense of "Les Miserables"

January 10th, 2013|5 min read

By Brett McCracken

Notes on Christmas Camp

December 10th, 2012|6 min read

By Brett McCracken

Five Reasons I'm Voting for Mitt Romney

October 25th, 2012|4 min read

By Brett McCracken

When Your Social Media Feeds Get You Down

July 25th, 2012|4 min read

By Brett McCracken

Place, Patriotism, and Sehnsucht

July 3rd, 2012|4 min read