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Don't Stop Believing
Art from Anthem shows a dynamic combat scene featuring four characters wearing large, powered exosuits.

Grieving with Anthem

By Elijah Beahm • February 4th, 2026

Almost everyone you meet has lost something, trying to find some way to move forward, to rebuild.

Don't Stop Believing
A still from the movie The Royal Hotel shows main characters Hanna and Liv standing in front of a retro car in a parking lot. Hanna stares somewhere past the viewer while Liv is turned away, gazing in another direction.

How Art Helped Me in 2025

By Elijah Beahm • January 8th, 2026

We might not even realize it as it happens, but what we engage with shapes us.

Don't Stop Believing
A screenshot from Control shows Jesse floating in a long hallway that spirals impossibly around her.

Control Explores Theology in the Multiverse

By Elijah Beahm • December 5th, 2025

In CONTROL, faith is a fundamental force like gravity.

Don't Stop Believing
A screenshot from Bioshock Infinite shows Elizabeth sitting at a desk in front of a portrait of Marx.

Forgiving, and Forgetting, Bioshock

By Elijah Beahm • November 5th, 2025

If there is one constructive lesson that can be learned from Bioshock Infinite, it’s the crucial, fundamental need for forgiveness.

Don't Stop Believing
Key art from Bioshock 2 shows a Big Daddy looming in the darkness like a deep sea diver.

Bioshock 2 Asks You to Have the Faith of a Child

By Elijah Beahm • October 7th, 2025

How far will you exploit others to achieve your own goals? And can you forgive others of their own misdeeds?

Don't Stop Believing
Official art for the film Legion shows a shirtless archangel Michael gazing upwards into a beam of light, wings outstretched.

Legion Reinvents… Jesus?

By Elijah Beahm • September 10th, 2025

Rudi Berden’s Legion both is and isn’t a story of the apocalypse, and weaves a ton of different Biblical stories and apocrypha together.

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A dark-haired woman in a leather jacket stands with her arms crossed in front of a microphone in this screenshot from Stray Dogs, stage lights and bright red curtains behind her.

Stray Gods’ Pantheon Yearns For Reformation

By Elijah Beahm • August 6th, 2025

There’s no one size fits all “I’m a good person” option players can opt for. Because that’s not how this works, especially in religion.

Don't Stop Believing
A screenshot from Dante's Inferno shows a bird's eye view of the inside of a church, portions of which are on fire. At one end, a lone figure stands in a pure white shaft of light, holding a massive blade.

Dante’s Inferno Was Visceral to a Fault

By Elijah Beahm • July 3rd, 2025

Is it possible to be a devil’s advocate when you’re condemning a game on Hell?

Don't Stop Believing
In key art from the first game, Bayonetta stands facing away from the viewer in front of the full moon, giant on the horizon.

Is Bayonetta More Than Sacrilegious Brawling?

By Elijah Beahm • June 3rd, 2025

She doesn’t want to rule. She just wants to live.

Don't Stop Believing
Close-up on the animated cast of Space Jam 2 (Daffy, Bugs, Yosemite Sam, Porky, and Lola) faces all frozen in fear.

Space Jam 2 Wants You to Dethrone the Idol Worship of Algorithms

By Elijah Beahm • May 7th, 2025

At every single step, the story is basically how the ways Warner Bros. has embraced AI has tainted every facet of its intellectual property.

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