if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
Taylor Berglund
@toberglund.bsky.social
Senior Features Editor at Christianity Today. YouTube video essay creator. Duke Div alum. Gets way too excited about movies. Always up to something. Micah 6:8. Opinions mine and do not reflect on CT.
that is in fact literally in the bible. it's Matthew 6:5.
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · last wk.Rep. Lauren Boebert insists that public Christian worship events are necessary for America to experience revival: "I don't think that Jesus ever called for any Christian to pray only silently or to keep their faith hidden only in the prayer closet."
When you finally turn in the draft for a story that's been sitting on your to-do list for weeks
Elijah Wood: It's Done - Lord of the Rings
Alt: Elijah Wood: It's Done - Lord of the Rings
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Classic win-now move. You have to give Pittsburgh credit for going for it while their championship window is open.
Megan Swift@meganswift.bsky.social · 3mo agoPittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium is set to trade gorillas with Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. Frankie, Pittsburgh’s 7-year-old male western lowland gorilla, will head to Boston, and in exchange, Boston will send 33-year-old Little Joe the silverback @triblive.bsky.social 🦍
i see a horse has won the kentucky derby again. this is beginning to feel rigged
Look, we've all been there. You start off with a simple research question - "Why do so many all-female alliances fail on #Survivor?" - and then accidentally create an 85-minute documentary on the global history of women's alliances. We've all made one. Here's mine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2oN...
A Complete Ranking of Every Cursed Women's Alliance in Survivor History
YouTube video by Survivor: Florida
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Wrote for @christianitytoday.com about the great work Housing for New Hope is doing to help the homeless population in my city of Durham: www.christianitytoday.com/2026/03/mira...
Turning ‘a Miracle’ into Long-Haul Help for the Homeless - Christianity Today
A North Carolina nonprofit is thinking in decades, not days, about sustainable, affordable housing.
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Yup! I think, psychoanalyzing my own hatred of AI, that a lot of it stems from an intuition that what people want out of AI (affirmation, therapy, instant gratification) is what they increasingly want (or are being trained to want) out of art and culture bsky.app/profile/alis...
Alissa Wilkinson@alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe piece about AI in romance novels (which, I mean, has been very widespread, I don’t think this is surprising) has reminded me of this excellent @xwaldie.bsky.social article of a year ago about romantasy that I think about probably weekly at least: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
going to the prayer breakfast to complain about people who pray while eating
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoTrump: "Mike Johnson is a very religious person. He does not hide it. He'll say to me sometimes at lunch, 'Sir, may we pray.' I'll say, 'Excuse me? We're having lunch.'"
reading each post, taking a long breath, and repeating "i just don't think this needs to involve me"
Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others. Love all, help all. Go Jackets.
When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
I love this take. I'm sure there are holes in this that smarter people could identify, but to me, if you are chasing a purely *Christian* political worldview, this feels like the really natural endpoint (credit @sojo.net @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social) sojo.net/articles/opi...
A Christian Plan to Help Billionaires
There is no logical reason for people to live like this. We should help them.
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I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
“A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” said Katie Fallow, deputy litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University @katiefallow.bsky.social
Scott Nover@scottnover.bsky.social · 11mo agoNEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
thinking once again of jon foreman’s answer when someone asked him if switchfoot is a christian band
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.
Another reason why I continue to become the biggest AI hater
Anthony Oliveira@meakoopa.bsky.social · last yr.AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids, @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/brad...
Brad Pitt Is Fooling You
The F1 press tour has been a carefully attuned charm offensive meant to obscure Pitt’s alleged violent behavior toward ex-wife Angelina Jolie.
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It is actually so pleasurable and INVOLVING to fill in the blanks and use your imagination as a viewer. It binds you to the material, makes you invested. and there are fewer and fewer mainstream entertainments that give you room to do that