“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.” So croons popular singer Paolo Nutini in a song on his latest album Sunny Side…

An examination of a life falling apart in the film 'Locke'.

Vincent Van Gogh is now a solid fixture in our cultural vocabulary. I need only mention sunflowers or a bandaged ear to conjure up his life…

Why does crime fiction fascinate so many people? What might this show us about people's concerns today.

In The Writing on the Wall, Maggi Dawn sets about doing what John Stott called "double listening" – "it means that we’re called…

I'm not sure exactly what makes someone a phenomenon, but anyone who has managed to win 62 music awards in two years and has produced a…

Rachel Helen Smith considers two recent developments in film: horror and 3D. Karl Marx famously claimed, "Religion is the opiate of the…

Reality TV now seems to be everywhere. What does it tell us about what is real and what is true? And what does it say about God?

Why does the desire to be young again continually re-appear in contemporary culture? What is a Christian response?