Shawn McEvoy Archives

I've been involved in several discussions with friends and colleagues alike in person, over text, and on social media since Sunday night. I've...

When Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday fell on the same day I thought, "This suddenly makes a whole lot of sense to me; can we do this every year?"

All that's going away is a standard review format from an experienced critic, and a commitment to cover nearly every movie Hollywood produces. What...

It's worked so well for our Bible study times, this format. It keeps us looking forward to meeting, keeps us targeted, gives us something to look...

As I wandered aimlessly around Trader Joe's with my wife and daughter, debating how much to tell them until we got home, I knew only that I was...

The list that follows is not necessarily what I've learned, or all I've learned. It’s what I recommend as guides for YOU, right now, entering your...

Where is God when atrocities happen and humans suffer? I can only conclude He’s right here with us, working in the hearts of those who remain.

I don't know much, but I do know what's awesome about this holiday, and how to ensure my family, like the reborn Scrooge, knows how to keep...

I'm generally not a big fan of bumper stickers, of advertising platitudinous tweets or angry opinions with my vehicle. But this one caught my...

The theological virtues are superior inoculations against whatever goes on around us, the very infusions that make possible a mission of bringing...

A brutally honest 40-something version of the "What I Did This Summer" essay.

There's a bit of controversy abrew over what Hollywood has done to the story of Kim and Krickett Carpenter in the hit movie The Vow. Asked to...

Not every film about faith is worth seeing, but when faith is present in a film it both sparks conversations and is there because conversations are...

Patience prevents rash judgment, and judgmentalism. It secures a plan. It is a beautiful paradox of being a non-action and yet a conscious exercise...

Everyone I know is shocked by the news out of Penn State. Everyone I know says they would have done differently. But then why do scandals happen?...