Blog The Betrayal of Certitude A Christian liberal arts education should undermine certitude: something I learned from Dorothy L. Sayers,…Crystal L. DowningApril 12, 2021
Blog Amputating the Liberal Arts As theaters, museums, and concert halls struggle during these covidious times, I worry about the…Crystal L. DowningMarch 22, 2021
Blog Cinema: In the Beginning Related to kinesis, Greek for movement, the word cinema resonates with the beginnings described at…Crystal L. DowningFebruary 22, 2021
Blog January 6 and the Fixation of Belief I imagine that most of us are looking through the binocular lenses of scholarly specialization…Crystal L. DowningJanuary 26, 2021
Blog Shocking Our Socks off the Mantle Annoyed by plump plastic Santas perched on suburban lawns, I was suddenly struck by the…Crystal L. DowningDecember 14, 2020
Blog Aiming for Abnormality During the 1992 election, James Carville coined an infamous aphorism: “It’s the economy, stupid!” I…Crystal L. DowningNovember 18, 2020
Blog Naughty Gnosticism and Film Scholarship I ended my last post suggesting “the relevance of cinema to Christian orthodoxy.” What exactly…Crystal L. DowningOctober 26, 2020
Blog Toward a Christian Film Aesthetic As co-director of the Marion E. Wade Center, the world’s most comprehensive archive of books and…Crystal L. DowningSeptember 14, 2020
Reviews Reforming Hollywood: How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies Reviewed by Crystal Downing, English and Film Studies, Messiah College Several years ago I began…Crystal L. DowningJuly 15, 2013