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Indiana Jones movies and Raiders of the Lost Ark: Why the original still stands alone

June 30, 2023 Steven D. Greydanus 20

I was 12 when Raiders of the Lost Ark opened in 1981, and it changed my relationship with movies. I was already an avid moviegoer; what’s more, between the first two films in the Star […]

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Star Wars: The Rise of Nostalgia

December 17, 2019 Sean Fitzpatrick 9

For those who grew up a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the final episode in the Star Wars saga, The Rise of Skywalker, promises an emotional conclusion to what was a […]

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How the “Star Wars” franchise lost its way

December 26, 2017 Bishop Robert Barron 42

What began forty years ago as a thrilling, cinematic exploration of the philosophia perennis has devolved into a vehicle for the latest trendy ideology—and that […]

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I recently asked an anonymous, young, Syrian Christian studying in America what he thought the best solution for Syria was. “The foreign fighters are bad, but so is Assad,” he said, “Nevertheless, there is hope […]

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