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‘Journey to Bethlehem’ Gets Lost on Its Way

Given the film’s wildly altered and modernized storyline, I can’t bring myself to give Journey to Bethlehem the support I usually give biblical fiction and musicals. · Marian Jacobs
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Two Classics

Even after that bitter end, I am sure: Dostoevsky and Austen are like each other. · Shannon McDermott

An Acquittal

One of the curious facts about art is that even the worst ideas are, very occasionally, right. · Shannon McDermott

Past the High Point

Why can’t a villain finish his redemption arc without finishing himself? · Shannon McDermott

A Critic’s Phrase

A word kept recurring in the discussion: nostalgic. · Shannon McDermott

Happiness is an Aesthetic

Happiness also is an aesthetic. · Shannon McDermott

The Decision of Meaning

A story stands as it was created. · Shannon McDermott

The Crux of the Tragedy

All my adult life, I had intended to never read Romeo and Juliet. · Shannon McDermott

Redundant Redundancies

Like Orwell’s animals, some redundancies are more equal than others. · Shannon McDermott

Somewhere Out There

The only thing more appalling than vast, unfathomable spaces is vast, unfathomable emptiness. · Shannon McDermott

An Icon of Melodrama

If you consider the facts from a certain distance – objectively, even analytically – you would have to conclude that the image of a woman tied to the railroad tracks is grim. · Shannon McDermott

Lazarus, Come from the Dead

I am impressed by the image in the Gospel of people flocking to see Lazarus. I think I would have been more interested in hearing him. · Shannon McDermott

The Burden of Belief

The dynamic of offering people fiction that entangles with their convictions is two-fold. You may well draw them to your story. But they will come with the burden of belief. · Shannon McDermott

Not Always Popular

Today we are going to discuss three distinctly Christian subgenres of speculative fiction and why they are not always popular. · Shannon McDermott

Another Few Highlights

These are highlights – flash reviews, book recommendations if you want them – of speculative fiction. · Shannon McDermott

What the People Want

You have to take success where it comes, even if it happens to come on Netflix. · Shannon McDermott

A Cheerful Holiday

Everyone likes New Year’s because the New Year is about change, and we could all use some of that. · Shannon McDermott

The All-Time Great

But the best of them all is A Christmas Carol. · Shannon McDermott

Frozen II: They Tried

The good news is, they tried.

Not Cinema, but Movies

I do not exactly come to praise Marvel, but neither do I come to bury it. · Shannon McDermott

The Best Stories

We don’t know what heaven is. It seems we can’t imagine it, either. · Shannon McDermott

The Least Dangerous Men

Today’s subject is ghost stories, because ’tis the season. · Shannon McDermott

The Best Worst Thing

The floor is open. What are your nominations? · Shannon McDermott

The Hallmark of a Snob

Let me tell you what a snob is. · Shannon McDermott

Four Classes

This collection of fairy tales is admirably broad-minded in its inspiration, drawing from Scripture and history and legend. · Shannon McDermott

A Few Highlights

I’ve been reflecting on the books I have had the opportunity to read and the privilege to review. I am going to highlight just a few. · Shannon McDermott

Two Streams of Thought

I am in favor of fandoms. But sometimes I wonder: How much do any of them matter? · Shannon McDermott

The Arc and the Epilogue

In the beginning, Pixar made Toy Story, and it was good. · Shannon McDermott

A Broadened Horizon

But if my estimation of Marvel’s weaknesses is the same, my estimation of its strengths has changed. · Shannon McDermott

One Conception From Another

We all have an idea of what a witch is, but the idea is almost unavoidably an amalgam. · Shannon McDermott

A Vulnerable Technique

Flashbacks possess a special nature, generally inclined to be awkward. · Shannon McDermott

In A World Without Humor

Incidents like this raise a critical question: What are we to do with humorless people? · Shannon McDermott

Art Under Negotiation

The early Christians made their own negotiations with art in a pre-Christian culture. · Shannon McDermott

The Last Impossibility

What we end with is a popular culture that will face neither the darkness nor the light. · Shannon McDermott

Mary Poppins, Second Verse

“Mary Poppins Returns” does not repeat the original film. It rhymes with it. · Shannon McDermott

Leaving Michael Jackson

We have begun – too late, but better than never – our cultural reckoning of the fact that the King of Pop was a monster. · Shannon McDermott

Favor the Franchise

It is possible, with sequels and spin-offs and a faithful public, to make an entire career of one story. · Shannon McDermott

A Time For Generosity

The benefit of this program is that authors make more money. The downside is that that money has to come from somewhere or, rather, from someone. · Shannon McDermott
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