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Kathryn Reklis

New York

Screentime Columnist and Contributing Editor at Christian Century

scholar of religion/theology, tv watcher, facilitator of greatness teaches @FordhamTheology writes @ChristianCent

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  • 2 months ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Brandon Ambrosino |Richard Lischer |Kathryn Reklis

    “Do you ever feel at times as if you’re not a person?” German woman Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp) says to her best friend Anna (Emma Corrin) in an early scene of Nosferatu (directed by Robert Eggers). “Someone or something,” she continues, “had the power to breathe life into you, to move you.” Anna has clearly never felt this way, and she looks both concerned and unsettled. Maybe, she suggests hopefully, this is the expansive love of God filling Ellen’s heart?

  • Jan 9, 2025 | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Phil Christman |Wendell Berry |Kathryn Reklis

    Ridley Scott’s movies are often splashy epics about near impossible feats undertaken by flawed but honorable and charismatic men. His subjects are both historical heroes (Napoleon, 2023; Robin Hood, 2010) and ordinary men who rise to extraordinary circumstances (White Squall, 1996; Black Hawk Down, 2001; The Martian, 2015). He might be forgiven, then, for basically reworking the story from his first Gladiator movie (2000) with a few variations and new characters in Gladiator II.

  • Aug 30, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Philip Jenkins |Jack Jenkins |Kathryn Reklis

    About halfway through Sing Sing (directed by Greg Kwedar), a group of actors is asked to perform a scene for a group of potential donors in the hopes of buying new stage curtains. They pump each other up backstage and emerge energized from the wings. Sitting in front of them is a small row of tight-lipped, wealthy, White women. The actors look at each warily for a split second before launching into a melee of theatrical combat from Spartacus.

  • Jun 28, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Samuel Wells |Brandon Ambrosino |Jonathan Tran |Kathryn Reklis

    The path to the Beatles Ashram, once the tranquil retreat of the famous British band, is now overgrown with lush plants reclaiming the crumbling structures. Tucked away in the Himalayan foothills, this abandoned Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Ashram was a brief escape for the Beatles from their hectic lives in the spotlight. The Beatles Ashram—fondly called Chaurasi Kutia (84 huts) by locals—rests on the eastern banks of the Ganges River.

  • Jun 28, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Samuel Wells |D. L. Mayfield |Brandon Ambrosino |Kathryn Reklis

    In 1955, W. H. Auden published The Shield of Achilles. The poetry collection includes a lengthy sequence of poems that I would rate high among the spiritual and devotional classics of the 20th century but which still receive nothing like the attention they deserve. I am delighted that my Baylor University colleague Alan Jacobs has produced a splendid new edition of that book (from Princeton University Press), with an invaluable introduction and scholarly commentary.

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30 May 23

Super late sharing, but I think about why #AreYouThereGod? was forbidden in my evangelical youth and why it still seems so radical in my progressive adulthood for @ChristianCent : https://t.co/Bdr7ZPtbF0

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5 May 23

Hate, like love, is a many-splendored thing. And maybe even a purifying fire. I think about #BEEFNetflix for @ChristianCent https://t.co/UgodAbUs2k

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7 Apr 23

Is @thechosentv good TV or just “Christian good”? I think about it @CNNOpinion https://t.co/VoZN5TWKm4