MCU Lent

Jess and I spent Lent watching through the MCU Infinity Saga. Here are 40 pieces on the films, many of them coming from Think Christian and Christ and Pop Culture.


Phase One

1. The Avenger

2. Hypocritical humanism in The Avengers

3. The Avengers: Very Human Superheroes

Phase Two

1. Captain America, Spider-Man, and Sympathy for the Villains

2. Guardians of the Galaxy as a Pentecost Film

3. “Something Good, Something Bad, a Bit of Both”: Natural Law, Nihilism, and Guardians of the Galaxy

4. Avengers: Age of Ultron’s Tiny Dollop of Grace

5. ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Is a Gourmet Cheeseburger for Christian Fans

6. What Ultron Misunderstands About God and Man

Phase Three

1. Captain America: Civil War and Living in Spiritual Community

2. How Black Widow Tells a Better Hero Story

3. Doctor Strange: Marvel Finally Makes Room for the Spiritual

4. Guardians of the Galaxy’s “small g god”

5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Explores the Many Lies We Believe

6. Spider-Man: Homecoming and the Amazing Technicolor Spidey Suit

7. In ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming,’ Greatness Starts with Becoming a Servant

8. Oikos and Idolatry in Spider-Man: Homecoming

9. Thor: Ragnarok’s Prophetic Call to Confession

10. ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Invites Us to a Bright, Boisterous Duel with Death

11. Four Crucial Questions Raised by Black Panther

12. Black Panther’s Vision of Zion

13. At Home in Wakanda

14. ‘Black Panther’ and the Longing for Home

15. Behold Your Queen: The Real Conflict in Captain Marvel

16. Christ Figures, Assemble! Examining Sacrifice in Avengers: Infinity War

17. Thanos the Maniac

18. Avengers: Infinity War and the Lost Spirit of Sacrifice

19. Avengers: Infinity War: When Death Isn’t Final

20. Giving up the Ghost in Ant-Man and the Wasp

21. Captain Marvel’s Care for the Refugee

22. Anticipating Avengers: Endgame — and Easter

23. Avengers: Endgame and the Devastation of Thor

24. Avengers: Endgame, Nebula, and the Love that Transforms

25. Black Widow’s Endgame Begins With Family

26. Avengers: Endgame and the Redemption Saga of Tony Stark

27. Soul Stones and Sacrifice in Avengers: Endgame

28. The Only Satisfying Endgame: Why Great Stories Always Hurt

29. Avengers: Endgame Helps Us Behold an Epically Joyous Fantasy Apocalypse

30. Ministered by the MCU

31. Spider-Man: Far From Home and the Power of Personal Narratives