Competing Spectacles: Treasuring Christ in the Media Age

We are living in an age of spectacles. No, I’m not referring to the fact that people have started to wear eyeglasses for purely fashion purposes. I’m talking about things like YouTube celebrities, political scandals, Super Bowl ads, social media influencers, viral news stories, sports highlights, virtual reality video games, pornography, and the latest “binge-worthy” show on Netflix. All of these are spectacles, visual images that are manufactured and presented to us in order to grasp our...