As we close the book on 2019 and as I prepare to create a blank 2020 Google document in a few days, here’s a look at what I appreciated most this year.

These are 10 of the days I would want to revisit from the last 10 years. What would be yours?

Here are my favorite movies, documentaries, TV shows, music albums, and books released in the 2010s decade.

A collection of some of my publications (movie reviews, essays, etc.) from April to August 2019.

If there is one thing that becomes utterly clear living with a child in their first year of life, it’s how fast they change. Every month is change. Every week. Every day.

Hipster coffeeshops are not playing the hipster music of today. They are playing the hipster music from 10-20 years ago. Why?

The California super bloom is speaking theologically, just in time for Easter. What is it saying? Here are a few things I hear.

A collection of some of my publications (movie reviews, essays, book excerpts, etc.) from November 2018 to March 2019.

Many of them could and should apply to every year, but here are 19 habits I hope to cultivate in 2019.

There is a massive amount of great music being made today (and plenty of mediocre music), so one person’s list surely only scratches the surface. But for whatever it’s worth, here are the 2018-released albums, songs, and cover songs (in our overwhelming and confusing musical present, the past has become an important inspiration) I enjoyed the most.

These lists highlight some of my favorites in two categories: books I read in 2018 that were 1) released this year and 2) not released this year. Perhaps some of these will make it onto your bookshelf in 2019. I recommend them all!

On a Thursday in November, 2017, we drove east. In Santa Ana, to drive east is to drive toward the desert. And so to the desert we went. We were headed to Zion.

A collection of some of my publications (movie reviews, essays, book excerpts, etc.) from July to October, 2018.

One day I'll write a book about Terrence Malick. In the meantime, and in honor of the upcoming release of the Criterion Collection extended cut of The Tree of Life, here is a list of every Malick-focused piece I've ever written.

A collection of some of my publications (movie reviews, essays, book excerpts, etc.) from January to June, 2018.

There are many “deaths” involved in following Christ, however obscured they may be in today’s cushy forms of Christianity. The following are five likely losses that come with truly embracing the cross of Christ.

On days when I’m sitting in my real church and feel frustrated by something, I sometimes daydream about my ideal church. I dream about a church I would always be proud and never embarrassed to call home; a church so amazing that any non-Christian who visited would never want to leave.

A collection of some of my publications (movie reviews, essays, book excerpts, year-end lists, etc.) from August to December, 2017.

I maintain a Google document going each year that keeps track of the best music, movies, books, and TV I've enjoyed that year. Sometimes I even take note of best restaurants and food experiences. As we close the book on 2017 and as I prepare to create a blank 2018 Google document in a few days, here's a look at what made the cut in my favorites of 2017.

For a few months in 2003-2004, the Hubble Space Telescope zoomed in on a seemingly blank, small spot in the sky. To the naked eye it looked like a speck of black emptiness. But once developed, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image showed that inside that small, randomly selected patch of sky, over 10,000 galaxies could be seen.