I love movies. I love the way I get swept up into their grand stories and often – especially after a particularly good move – think a little differently because of them. And so I’ve decided to try to write once a month about one movie and what it suggests to me about our life of faith in the world. And, if I can remember to do it, I’ll try to post these reflections on the fourth Friday of the month. Why? No particular reason except that then I can call it the Fourth Friday Film Forum. (Corny, I know, but the preacher in me loves alliterations when I can find them. 🙂 ) So the film I want to talk about is Prometheus, released in the...

For the better part of the last year, I’ve been working on a book with a young man who grew up in a Lutheran home but now identifies as an atheist. The book is intended to be a dialogue, to explore what we each believe, why, how we came to those beliefs, and how we bridge our differences in an increasingly pluralistic world. It’s been an incredibly fun project, as Ryan and I have a fair amount in common, both love candid and challenging conversations, and because, frankly, he’s a really great person to work with. But it’s also been quite challenging, as he raises questions for me that I haven’t, quite honestly, had to think about...