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Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies

Are The Deadlies Really Vices? Author: Rebecca DeYoung The seven deadly sins have been marketed as something decadent – the Devil’s Food Cake of “treat yourself” temptations; they’re deadly only in that, secretly, they offer an unbounded, unfathomable amount of pleasure. The “spa day” equivalent of luxury living that you dream about as you go about the hum-drum task of doing your duty, living in moderation, and secretly despairing of living under-the-radar and being satisfied with the meat-and-potatoes approach of just getting by. At least, that’s how the western cultural perception of sin has developed over time, and even as Christians, [...]

2025-02-08T15:34:37-07:00February 8th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Ghost Station

"Some of us are broken enough that we don’t get to be fixed." Author: S.A. Barnes Dr. Ophelia Bray is in way over her head – far more than her adversarial crew mates realize. This is her first space-based mission. Her job is to watch the crew for signs of ERS, a deadly, infectious condition that might have led one of their previous members (Ava) to her isolated and inexplicable death. ERS manifests through self-harm and, worse still, murderous psychotic rampages. But it’s preventable, even treatable, if caught in time. But Ophelia is not bringing her A game. She is distracted, [...]

2025-02-02T13:55:21-07:00February 2nd, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

Bright Young Women

A Fictionalized Story of the Ted Bundy Murders Author: Jessica Knoll Bright Young Women is an ambitious attempt to tell a segmented story of trauma, misogyny, exploitation, resilience, and women fighting against a biased and broken system. While the true crime story it’s based on (the Ted Bundy murders) is interesting, Bright Young Women fails to capture the tragedy of those involved. Instead, it comes off as a caricature of what happened, an outline of complexity that fails to capture a deeper, bloodier story. It strives to do something honorable, to highlight the victims instead of the insidious, egotistical perpetrator, but [...]

2025-01-27T10:39:19-07:00January 27th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |
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