Spoiler Alert: This article contains spoilers for The Smashing Machine. “We who wince at this gritty depiction feel a wound at our side as well.” During orientation at the Vanderbilt Divinity School, I heard a lecture on hermeneutics and the various interpretational frameworks each person brings to the Bible. We started not with the text […]
Converge have announced a new album called Love Is Not Enough, which is set for release on February 13 via Deathwish. It follows the metalcore band’s 2017 LP The Dusk in Us and the 2021 Chelsea Wolfe collab Bloodmoon: I. Check out the title track below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist. […]
Nov 14, 2025 Should mothers work outside the home? If you want an answer more solid than groundless internet opinion or conveniently vague appeals to personal discernment, this is the podcast for you. Margaret McCarthy joins the Catholic Culture Podcast to discuss her essay on why anti-sex-discrimination law’s treatment of the sexes as abstract interchangeable […]
The year might be drawing to a close, but it’s a perfect time to do something new with your Japanese study! Take a look below at the latest list of Japanese learning resources, lovingly selected by our team, to help supercharge your Japanese study. Activate Your Japanese! Activate Your Japanese! is a 24-episode drama about […]
Everyone in ancient Rome wore togas, surrounded themselves with pure-white marble statues, bayed for blood as gladiators fought to the death in the Colosseum, programmatically imitated the Greeks, and, after each and every debaucherous feast, excused themselves to the vomitoria, where they ritually vacated their stomachs. Or at least that’s the picture any of us […]
We’re a little over a month away from the release of Marty Supreme, which promises to be a buzzer beater in the Best Film of the 2025 conversation (spoiler: it is absolutely a contender) and Timothée Chalamet is pulling out all the stops in service of promoting the movie he’s called “the best thing I’ve […]
BC’s Cultural Economy is a National Growth Leader: Did you know that between 2010 and 2021 the average province in Canada saw its arts, culture, and heritage GDP shrink by 12% and BC’s cultural economy broke the trends and grew by 7%? (Source: Hill Strategies, 2023) Greater Investment in Arts, Culture, and Heritage Creates More […]
Spoiler Alert: This article contains spoilers for Predator: Badlands. Unashamedly, my most anticipated film of 2025 has been Predator: Badlands—seriously, I’ve already pre-ordered the statue. It’s no secret that the original Predator (1987) is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi flicks, being subversive in all the right ways and smart without ever needing to announce […]
In a scene where dance styles meet contemporary music, The Ghungroo Dance School in Stevenson Ranch is expanding its repertoire beyond traditional Indian classical forms. Under the guidance of choreographer and instructor Manya Aggarwal, the school is now bringing the energy of Bollywood hip-hop to a new generation of young dancers. Manya is bridging cultural […]
Sep 4, 2025 A number of doctrinal ruptures occurred in Catholic life after Vatican II – not in the sense that the Church’s magisterium contradicted its previous teachings, but that the vast majority of Catholics, even conservative ones, tend to get these topics wrong. One of the worst examples is how the Church’s traditional teaching […]
