Category: Television
Mandalorian Dogma
Zealots do not ordinarily fare well in popular American entertainment. The High Sparrow of Game of Thrones was routinely shown to be cruel, power hungry, and devious. His true believer identity turned out merely to be a front, the pathway...
Pam Against Posturing: On the Michael Scott Theory of Social Class
Let me preface this by claiming that beauty forms the moral imagination. Aesthetics shape our ethics, in ways both problematic and promising. How does this relate to Michael Scott? Because few of my coworkers have been transformed by encounters with...
On Blood Sport and the Image of God
I’m pleased to publish this guest essay from Brad Williams.
Finding the Gospel in Game of Thrones
Unless you’re living under a rock (or the proverbial bushel), it’s impossible to have missed the phenomenon that is Game of Thrones. Part fantasy epic, part prestige television, its controversial subject matter has made it a bit of a touchy...
Why We Should Jettison the “Strong Female Character”
The trailer for the latest Star Wars movie, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, was released last week. Following the success of the revival of the franchise in last year’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, anticipation is unsurprisingly at a...
The Redundancy of House of Cards
SPOILERS SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN’T FINISHED THE SEASON STOP READING NOW
The Foolishness of Stephen Colbert
I’m pleased to publish Dustin Messer for the first time today at Mere Orthodoxy. A Boyce College graduate, Dustin served as Editor-in-Chief of The Bantam Journal at Covenant Theological Seminary before graduating from Covenant in 2014. He and his wife Whitney live in...
When Grace “Fails”—The Music of Call the Midwife
The third episode of the first season of the BBC show Call the Midwife is about what we do when our attempts to love and show mercy to a person seem to fail. The first story in the episode concerns Nurse...
A Faithless House–Religion in Fox’s “House”
Berny Belvedere is a professor of philosophy and a writer based in Miami, Florida. Follow him @bernybelvedere on Twitter. Check out more of his writings at www.belvyland.com. It’s a strange thing that over 177 episodes scattered across eight seasons Fox’s...
The Narrow Vision of House of Cards
Spoilers below spoilers below do not blame me for spoiling it if you read this there are spoilers below. Ahem. Since the debut of House of Cards‘ third season last week the reviews have been a mostly consistent blend of...