Month: April 2020
Pilgrimage: An Elder Scrolls Tale
Written by Grayson Schrader and Josh Johnson He was here. He had made it. There before him were the steps he so long dreamed of. The very steps his father […]
Film as Lit Crit: The Problem With Beowulf
With a $150 million budget, that’s an expensive piece of criticism! I bet it all went into copyediting…
Word of the Day: Hapless
Today’s Word of the Day, courtesy of WordSmith.org, is hapless, an adjective meaning “unfortunate,” according to Anu Garg at A.Word.a.Day. He says that the etymology is “from Old Norse happ […]
Fireside Quarantine Chats (Over the Internet)
This interview was a discussion between, myself, Grayson Schrader, and my friend, James Wagher. Both of us are students and commuters at Southern Wesleyan University. We catch up and talk […]
Word of the Day: Pragmatic
Today’s Word of the Day, thanks to WordThink.com, is pragmatic. Pragmatic is an adjective that means “More concerned with practical results than with theories and principles.” According to www.dictionary.com, it […]
Word of the Day: Saturnine
Today’s Word of the Day, courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary’s Online Word of the Day, is the adjective saturnine. The OED’s definition is long: “In regard to a person’s […]
Word of the Day: Wistful
Today’s Word of the Day, thanks to the Word Genius website, is wistful. Wistful, according to Word Genius, means “Having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing.” According […]
Too Many Villains: The Third Man (1949)
In Carol Reed’s 1949 classic The Third Man, no one is innocent…
Film Review: Out of the Past (1947)
The characters in Jacques Tourneur’s 1947 noir classic Out of the Past may not be good, but the movie is great.
Exploring Spiritual Formation: An Interview With Scott Williams
This is the transcript of an interview with Scott Williams, a former pastor and current educator. In 2016, he completed his Masters of Practical Theology from Wesley Seminary and in […]
Word of the Day: Mutable
Today’s word of the day, courtesy of the Bronx Chronicle, is mutable, an adjective meaning “Capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature…changeable” (https://thebronxchronicle.com/). According to www.dictionary.com, it means, “liable or subject to change or alteration; given […]
Word of the Day: Villain
Today’s word of the day, thanks to Swynfen Jervis’s A Dictionary of the Language of Shakespeare, is villain, a noun meaning a servant or a slave, according to Jervis. He […]