Jim McDermott

Jim McDermott is an author at Religion News Service.

All Stories by Jim McDermott

Photographer Stephen Wilkes’ Easter Sunday at St. Peter’s

By Jim McDermott — April 5, 2024
(RNS) — An exhibition of the photographer's Day and Night view of the Vatican on Easter, one in a series of Wilkes' epic shots of religion festivals, vaults the day into an almost cosmological framework.

‘Godzilla Minus One’ offers a profound critique of war and American pop culture

By Jim McDermott — November 29, 2023
(RNS) — The lizard god returns as a complex character reflecting his roots in postwar fears of nuclear weapons.

What the Catholic Church could learn about Good Friday from ‘Parade’

By Jim McDermott — April 6, 2023
(RNS) — How can we complicate our understanding of the Passion narrative of the Gospel of John to defuse its antisemitism?
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