Religion in fiction works when the writer takes the belief seriously, whatever they believe themselves. This tag collects reviews and essays on faith, doubt and religious institutions in film and writing.
FaithA ghostwriter can turn years of sermons into a book, shape a devotional, or help you tell your testimony. The sermons supply the ideas, and the ghostwriter rebuilds them for someone reading alone.
1970sThe Pyx (1973) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A Canadian film in which a woman falls from a Montreal balcony and the investigation runs backward through her last days, intercut, with Karen Black singing her own…
FaithEaster can fall anywhere across a thirty-five day window, and the rule that decides it involves a fictional moon. The calculation occupied European mathematics for centuries, it is the reason Orthodox and Western Easter usually differ, and it causes genuine…
Book ReviewsKarl Glogauer travels back to AD 28 to witness the crucifixion, but finds the historical Jesus cannot be what history needs him to be. Moorcock's bleak novella-turned-novel asks what a myth requires, and answers that it requires somebody to fill…
FaithCardboard saints are built from doctrine. Real believers approach God through their attachment patterns, and faith on the page only convinces when the psychology underneath it is real.
Fantasy FictionThe war between Heaven and Hell has run for eons and neither side can win. Military fiction with real doctrine, told largely by an artificial intelligence that crossed over.
AprilEaster is a moveable spring Sunday. A childhood story about a pet rabbit, a hard rural lesson, and why the unsentimental truth makes the best writing.
2010sSchrader's 2017 religious drama. Ethan Hawke as a Protestant minister losing his faith over climate despair.
1960sBuñuel's 1962 surrealist drama. The Catholic Church, capitalism, ritual.
AmbitionThe HBO series ran two seasons from 2005 to 2007 and was canceled because the budget was unsustainable. The two seasons that exist comprise twenty-two episodes of historical drama operating at levels no prestige television series before or since has…
1990sThe Prophecy is one of the most underappreciated theological horror films of the 1990s and one of Christopher Walken's most committed performances. It grossed approximately sixteen million dollars in its initial theatrical release on a production budget of approximately eight…
Film TrilogyThe Prophecy is one of the most underappreciated theological horror franchises in American cinema. The original 1995 film delivered Christopher Walken's career-defining performance as the rebel angel Gabriel.
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