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Rhys Laverty is an editor and writer based in Chessington in the UK, where he lives with his wife and three children. He has written for outlets including First Things, The Spectator, The Critic, and Plough Quarterly.
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Rhys Laverty is an editor and writer based in Chessington in the UK, where he lives with his wife and three children. He has written for outlets including First Things, The Spectator, The Critic, and Plough Quarterly.
Rhys LavertyBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025
Could a critical mass of people opt out of the machine and pursue more humane ways of life? In principal, certainly. In practice? That remains to be seen.
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Christopher Nolan has a long, well-documented fascination with time. But what his films have not been able to do is show a way of escaping creatureliness.
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What is an appropriate wage for pastors? Rhys Laverty makes the case for a wage sufficient to support not just an individual, but a household.
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When will the world end? In Paul Kingsnorth’s reckoning, it already has lots of times, in fact. “Worlds are always ending — that, it turns out, is one of my themes, or tics, or obsessions” — he confessed that in […]
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“Stick man lives in the family tree With his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three.” So begins Stick Man—my son’s favourite bedtime story. Parents of a certain age will know it well. Julia Donaldson (of The Gruffalo fame) spins a lovely […]
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“The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” is, surely, the most thrilling Christmas song. It’s the pre-chorus – that sudden lurch into minor chords. Glorious, glitzy euphoria suddenly hangs in the balance, your stomach drops out, and wonder is split […]
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Pixar's "Soul" is the latest story to imagine the after life as a vast bureaucracy. Where it fails it fails because of the inhumanity of bureaucracy.
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In both his humanity and Godhead, Christ’s last end is the Divine Essence. Thus, He cannot be said to have thought of me above all.
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The 2019 film "The Lighthouse" starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson is the latest attempt to understand the divides that emerge between generations.