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