Jonathan Rayson-Locke

Jonathan Rayson-Locke is a barista and a fiction writer based in Orlando, Florida. You can find him on Twitter @j_nerdy_.

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The title character is seen in a production still from the anime "Yasuke." (Courtesy of Netflix)

New anime series featuring Blackness, Catholicism ultimately disappoints

TV review: The cardinal sin of "Yasuke" is not in the world-building or the antagonists. It is the fact that the Black samurai Yasuke, despite being the show's namesake and despite marketing, is not the main character.

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What Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower' can teach Catholics

Book review: Written in 1993 and set in the 2020s, The Parable of the Sower shares a common thread with Catholic social teaching: the spark of hope that we can survive amid catastrophe and do this by caring for our communities.

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