The Amazon and the Carpenter: A Christian Analysis of Wonder Woman

This is more than the obligatory “I saw Wonder Woman and loved it” post everybody’s doing in 2017. I mean, I did see it (at long last), and I did love it, but what sets this post apart is that it is not about feminism. GASP. Heresy.

Don’t get me wrong, I really liked the woman-affirming elements in Wonder Woman. I was especially pleased with the fact that those elements weren’t in-your-face. This is an age when the sole purpose of most films and TV shows in period settings is to emphasize how...