Sitemap - 2025 - Terry Mattingly -- Rational Sheep

Warhammer wars: Henry Cavill takes on Amazon?

Crossroads -- Democrats want to talk to American men

Darcy, Lizzy and the moral vision of Jane Austen

What is Job 1, when you run a pop super-franchise?

Crossroads -- More ink about young Orthodox guys

Create your own AI Rational Sheep fake?

How do digital nobodies turn into influencers?

Thinking about kids with zero social media

Flashback: Audio version of tmatt talk on faith, family & screens

Rolling Stone finds the online version of "Descent into Hell"

Could Star-Lord become the face of Avengers 2.0?

Weekend thinker: Are you addicted to your phone?

Crossroads -- AI is not a fringe issue to Pope Leo XIV

Thinking with readers: Why artists tend to be liberals

Digital Gen Zoomers seeking places to call home

Life beyond screens: Thinking about an AI apocalypse

Crossroads -- "Groundhog Day" in elite Leo XIV news coverage

"Hallelujah," the pope "intoned reverently, in Latin"

Future Leo XIV offered warnings on screens culture

Thinking about realities facing Pope Leo XIV

Crossroads -- Gray Lady explores women with crosses

Can Meryl Streep provide Aslan's deep voice?

Thinking about "Conclave" and "news" about the conclave

Confessions of an old print dinosaur

Crossroads: Yo, editors, this conclave is not about America

More please: Baptist Press plugs screens culture research

It's always time to notice, 'Logos Made Flesh'

Is it a good thing to "care" about celebrities?

Crossroads -- After Francis, another "executive order" papacy?

Concerning Hollywood heaven, mainline faith and nones

The chair in Rome is empty ...

Seen any good "Easter" movies lately?

Crossroads -- Let Aslan first be shaved!

Behold, Hollywood has a huge hit -- for boys

Why believers need to worry about dating tends

A crucial, defining smartphone-era essay

Crossroads -- What's next with global religious freedom?

Once again, concerning a "faith-friendly" SNL

Pop test: Name some pro-faith "rom coms"

Reading the tea leaves in a famous "reaction video"

Crossroads -- Is it legal to build "religious communities?"

Why did the Wheaton podcast go semi-viral?

"Snow White" and America's niche-culture wars

Crossroads -- Religion trends are full of puzzles

Thinking about family movie nights

Age of the crashing Hollywood empires

Crossroads -- Why are so many churches shrinking?

Aggressive thinking about passive-voice COVID journalism

"Official" list of 100 "must see" films for Catholics

Crossroads -- Angry questions about Christians being persecuted

Journalism adventures with Martin Marty

Concerning the popular year one Rational Sheep posts

Crossroads -- Martin Marty by the numbers? That isn't enough ...

And now, a few serious words from Jeff Foxworthy

Thoughts after one year of Rational Sheep

Crossroads -- Democrats need to start having babies

Take Kathleen Kennedy out of 'Star Wars' and ...

Try to imagine a faith-friendly Saturday Night Live

Catching up with two recent tmatt columns

Crossroads -- Exploring the ongoing Wheaton College wars

Would clergy dare to show this video during coffee hour?

Who is a "celebrity" these days?

Thinking about the end of sermons as we know them

Crossroads -- So, Peter Thiel didn't talk to the Gray Lady about faith

Here comes Lent: Put down that phone and make soup

Trump's very old-school outreach to Tinsel Town

Watching for repentance in the Big Game ads

Crossroads -- Pushy questions about the Pope Francis memoir

Once again, it's time to ponder God's role in the Super Bowl

Asking AI gods: What does "Rational Sheep" mean?

"Good" religion vs. "bad" religion -- in mass media and in life

Crossroads -- There's more to the March for Life than politics

Is Robert Eggers struggling with God, or with Hollywood?

Who is to judge? Concerning the wife with the AI lover

1994 flashback: Why journalists love the Episcopal Church

Crossroads -- Episcopalians own the cathedral of DC culture

Open doors into the bedrooms of kids

Eggers 2.0: Dreher on doctrines in "The Witch"

In praise of brilliant, silly clay creatures

Crossroads -- Many reporters struggled to "get" Promise Keepers

Cartoon visions of mammals in urban hell

Dreher dissects the doctrines in "Nosferatu"

Think about it: "Magic" tech can short-circuit learning wisdom

Crossroads -- Failure to launch? Is that just a $$$ thing?

Does God want you to fast from the Internet on Sundays?

Yes, I really do want to hear from readers!

Backing up to think about After Babel

Crossroads -- Baptist with incense blesses abortion clinic?

Are faith-based shows getting better or ...