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		<title>Cubes, Backrooms, and Staircases</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Coyle Neal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The film out now, Backrooms, looks to be very much an homage to the cult classic Cube, as is the recent novel The Staircase in the Woods. The thing about a cult classic is, you either love it, hate it, or have never heard of it. Cube is such a movie, The Staircase in the Woods is likely to be such [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Top of the Country: Brunette</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Coyle Neal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This Top of the Country series blogs through the Country hits of the year, focusing this week on “Brunette” by Tucker Wetmore. I’ll admit I’d never heard of Tucker Wetmore before his song hit number one. And it’s definitely an interesting one! The music video has all the hallmarks of a classic Country song–it’s even [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Owen Among the Theologians</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Coyle Neal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Owen Among the Theologians by Kelly Kapic and Ty Kieser is an interesting exercise in systematic theology. Each chapter takes a topic and puts John Owen in conversation with other theologians from history on that topic. So for example, how should our eschatology shape our social action? That question is answered by putting Owen in conversation [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Top of the Country: The Fall</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Coyle Neal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 14:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This Top of the Country series blogs through the Country hits of the year, focusing this week on “The Fall” by Cody Johnson. Cody Johnson’s “The Fall” is a simple, straightforward, and classic Country song that deserved its week at the top of the Country charts. Sometimes Country music gets super specific, and tells a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>We need a good Odyssey</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Coyle Neal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[… but I don’t know that Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey will be it. That said, all we have at this point is the trailer, a handful of stills, and a couple of interviews. So let’s hold off on judgment and exercise some cautious optimism. After all, Nolan is the guy who gave us Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Inception, and Memento [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The End of the Late Show</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Coyle Neal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 20:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On May 21, 2026, The Late Show came to an end after over three decades of broadcasting. I do not claim any special insight into the combination of politics and economics that brought about the show’s end. (Though as a Christian having an openly Roman Catholic late night host created an interesting dynamic–Colbert himself has commented [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mortal Kombat 2: Can Video Game Movies Save Us?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Coyle Neal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post reviews 2026’s Mortal Kombat 2 and asks whether video game movies can save us by leading to a revival in great film In the 1960s and 70s, American film had fallen on hard times. Movies were gritty and dark. Heroes were really anti-heroes (at best). And the vision of the nation was grim. Perhaps [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Top of the Country: With Heaven on Top (Album)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Coyle Neal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 14:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Unless a new album or song breaks into the number 1 spot on the Billboard charts this week, this review of With Heaven on Top by Zach Bryan will be the last of the top of the country reviews. I suppose I could review the number 2 song or album, we’ll have to see. Until this, this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Wisdom of God</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Coyle Neal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 14:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is “the Wisdom of God”? That’s a question Matthew Harmon sets out to answer in his new book The Wisdom of God: Revealed, Reviled, and Reverberated. A part of Crossway’s excellent series “Short Studies in Biblical Theology” (many of which are reviewed on this blog). So what is it? Harmon says: “we can define wisdom [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ella Langley’s Dandelion Review: Top of the Country</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Coyle Neal]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Top of the Country: Dandelion (Album) This week’s review in the “top of the Country” series is Ella Langley’s new album Dandelion. This is very much the year of Ella Langley–even if she drops off the charts tomorrow (and that does not look likely), she will have spent all of January- the first week of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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