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Pentecostal Fire | Tim Dearborn
+ Tim Dearborn, previous director of the Ogilvie Institute of Preaching, preaches on Pentecost, modern day ambivalence toward spiritual realities, and the “fire of God” that could transform our hearts...
View ArticleFantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
After a surprisingly smart first entry in the Fantastic Beasts series—Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a Harry Potter movie, minus the Harry Potter, for the now-adults who grew up reading...
View ArticleWidows
A “pot boiler” is a work of narrative fiction that an artist makes to provide basic sustenance. Generally, pot boilers are crafted to appeal to mass audiences over any more artistic concerns. Some...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Coen brothers’ new film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, is a playful film, though I can’t decide if it’s playful like an overeager puppy unaware of how hard it can bite or if it’s playful like a cat...
View ArticleJinn
Jinn is about a high school girl named Summer whose mother, Jade, converts to Islam, and both of them reckon with the effects of this on their lives as individuals and their life together. In the...
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Culture Care and Poetry | Dana Gioia and Mako Fujimura
+ Dana Gioia, the poet laureate of California, discusses his time as director of the National Endowment for the Arts. He reflects on initiatives like honoring jazz legends, bringing free Shakespeare...
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FULLER dialogues: Una Iglesia Sin Fronteras
“Toda la teología es contextual, y nuestra comprensión de nuestro llamado estará marcada, ¡inevitablemente!, por nuestra historia, nuestro hogar, nuestra gente, nuestra cultura. Y eso es parte de la...
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First, Primary, and Pervasive | Mark Labberton
+ Mark Labberton, president of Fuller Seminary, revisits Philippians 2—the text read at his inauguration—and preaches on making the mind of Christ primary and pervasive on “the great pathway of...
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The Blessed Disruption of Hospitality
“It is very biblical to enforce the law.” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, on the morality of separating over 2,000 children from their immigrant parents at the border (June 15,...
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Leading Without Fear | Gary Haugen
+ Gary Haugen, founder and CEO of International Justice Mission, reflects on Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous dream, considers the ways fear can hinder leadership, and shares how faith in Christ...
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Gratitude and Disability | Various Voices
+ Staff and students in the Fuller community offer testimonies of gratitude in the midst of visual impairment, kidney failure, and cerebral palsy—and demonstrate that “the Body of Christ is incomplete...
View ArticleThe Favourite
Some movies feel like entering into someone’s mind and being let in on (subjected to?) the internal conflicts waging there. The Favourite is that kind of movie. The latest from Greek auteur Yorgos...
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Fight or Flight | Tara Beth Leach
+ Tara Beth Leach, senior pastor of First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena, preaches on the Sermon on the Mount, the ways Jesus embodies risk and reconciliation, and a call for churches to embody...
View ArticleA Star Is Born (2018)
There are SPOILERS for A Star Is Born in the following review. The first few scenes in A Star Is Born are pleasant enough. Jack (Bradley Cooper, ahem, pitch perfect) performs with his band. Ally (Lady...
View ArticleRalph Breaks the Internet
My wife and I are obsessed with The Great British Baking Show. You probably are too. This paean to excellence harmonized by graciousness, which is itself excellently and gracefully produced, has been a...
View ArticleRoma
I am aglow. Roma is cinematic spirit-wind sweeping into the locked room of my heart, casting out the late-year malaise, and baptizing my eyes with new sight. If I speak with the tongues of men and...
View ArticleThe Mule
It’s been a good year at the movies for 70s icon now in their 80s committing crimes. First Robert Redford charmed his way through small town bank vaults in David Lowery’s equally charming The Old Man...
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Healing Where There is No Cure: The Disruption of Illness
Besides birth and death, illness is the only experience that every human will encounter at one time or another. Whether it is the common cold, a progressive disease, or terminal cancer, we are...
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John Ortberg on Discipleship
+ John Ortberg, senior pastor at Menlo Church and Fuller trustee, reflects on his own vocation as a preacher and writer, how practices of discipleship transform the human person, and what leading a...
View ArticleSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is one of the best films of the year. You shouldn’t read another word about it. Just go see it, and be surprised by all its gifts. But if you want to read more… For...
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