How Do We Distinguish the Holy from the Demonic?

How Do We Distinguish the Holy from the Demonic? An Anthropotheistic Meditation on Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Mass   Christoffer S. Lammer-Heindel Midnight Mass is a seven-part horror miniseries, which was released by Netflix in 2021. It follows the strange and supernatural developments experienced by a small community on Crockett Island and the ensuing trials—psychological, spiritual,…

Midnight Mass: Merits in Morally Ambiguous Media

Midnight Mass Merits in Morally Ambiguous Media By Tylor Cunningham Often, interpretive disagreements about artworks are the very things that make those works interesting and worth engaging in further. When two people pull seemingly contradictory themes or messages from a story, that’s an opportunity to come together and compare notes; to see if there’s something…