Defeating evil requires supernatural help, whether that’s on Stranger Things, in our world, or in our own hearts.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness talks constantly about happiness, but the film is actually concerned with something much deeper—love. Both Stephen Strange and
God is calling us home and may use Wakanda or Narnia, Hogwarts or Middle Earth to stir our homesickness and point us onward.
C.S. Lewis details how patriotism can be a good and healthy sentiment, but it can also turn into idolatry without our realizing.
Good stories that reflect the great Story fail to alarm those dragon biases in our listeners. Stories fail to raise the alarm despite carrying dangerous ideas, the most dangerous in fact—the gospel.