Jonathan Tomick is a writer, educator and poetry editor of The Avenue, a Mid-Atlantic literary journal. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with his wife, son and their cat, who is named after a Pokemon.
"Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire" might be a fun two-hour escape from reality, but it spoke to writer Jonathan Tomick about accepting God's call to step into difficulty.
Lent often feels like "New Year's Resolutions: Part II," a sequel released too soon, another call to consider our faults, another failure that could turn to stone. But this Lent, what if we made a practice of softening instead?
"Stranger Things" is weird. Its characters experience trauma, sometimes from encounters with monsters, other times from very real tragedies. Some people think the show is about monsters, but it's not. It's about people.
