Mark Dunbar
Posts by Mark Dunbar (page 9)
Chicago: Cursed by the Conservative Cause
On Tuesday night the president tweeted this: “If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going on, I will send in the Feds!” A typical... Read More
Book Review: George Orwell and Religion by Michael G. Brennan
It's become a stock refrain of intellectual history to say that George Orwell answered all three of the big questions of the twentieth century... Read More
Review: Westworld, (HBO), Season One
Westworld condenses the character, theme and plot developments of an entire television series into just its first season. No sooner do we discover that a... Read More
Book Review: Why the Reformation Still Matters by Michael Reeves and Tim Chester
Theologian Michael Reeves and Pastor Tim Chester’s new book, Why the Reformation Still Matters, couldn’t have come out at a better time. All sorts of once-presumed... Read More
Film Review: Arrival
Arrival has the remarkable qualities of all Denis Villeneuve’s films, which include Prisoners and Enemy (both released in 2013), and last year’s Sicario. Its cinematography is brilliant,... Read More
Film Review: The Birth of a Nation
For those Christians who gave the subject much thought at the time, the American Civil War was perceived as a crisis of theology. Crusaders... Read More
Film Review: Snowden
“Secrecy is security and security is victory.” So says the main antagonist in Oliver Stone’s begrudgingly anticipated political thriller, Snowden. Unsurprisingly, the secrecy he... Read More