Collected Writings on Terrence Malick

Terrence Malick and the church.

Those are the two topics I’ve written about the most over the years, whether on this blog or in published work elsewhere. I see a lot of overlap with the two, but considered separately they represent two major threads in my life’s preoccupations: film and faith. 

I’ve written three books about or for the church. One day I’ll write a book about Terrence Malick. In the meantime, here is a list of every Malick-focused piece I’ve ever written.

• Life on the Precipice (blog, Oct. 23, 2007)

• Notes on The New World Extended Director's Cut (blog, Oct. 19, 2008)

• Badlands (blog, May 8, 2011)

• Days of Heaven (blog, May 10, 2011)

• The Thin Red Line (blog, May 12, 2011)

• The New World (blog, May 14, 2011)

• Tree of Life Debuts at Cannes (blog, May 16, 2011)

• 39 Facts About Terrence Malick (blog, May 21, 2011)

• The Tree of Life (Christianity Today, May 22, 2011)

• A Sensory Revelation (Christianity Today, May 25, 2011)

• Why You Should Care About Tree of Life (Relevant, May 27, 2011)

• How to Watch a Malick Film (blog, May 28, 2011)

• 10 Transcendent Moments in Life (blog, Oct. 23, 2011)

• Advent and Malick (blog, Dec. 4, 2011)

• The Divine Guide in Terrence Malick's Tree of Life (blog, May 21, 2012)

• To the Wonder (Christianity Today, April 12, 2013)

• To Malick's Wonder (Mere Orthodoxy, April 27, 2013)

• The Roman Road and The Tree of Life (blog, April 28, 2014)

• Between Two Trees: A Review of Peter Leithart's Shining Glory (The Other Journal, Oct. 20, 2014)

• Knight of Cups and the Spirituality of Sleaze (Christianity Today, March 4, 2016)

• Terrence Malick's IMAX Evensong (blog, Oct. 21, 2016)

• ‘Voyage of Time’: Bridge from Science to Faith (TGC, Oct. 21, 2016)

• ‘Song to Song’ Is Cinematic Wisdom Literature (Christianity Today, March 16, 2017)

• Why ‘The Tree of Life’ Is the Best Christian Film Ever Made (TGC, October 23, 2018)

• ‘A Hidden Life’ Is a Faith-Based Masterpiece (TGC, December 12, 2019)