Eric Clayton

Eric A. Clayton is the award-winning author of Finding Peace Here and Now: How Ignatian Spirituality Leads Us to Healing and Wholeness, My Life with the Jedi: The Spirituality of Star Wars and more. He is the deputy director for communications at the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. Follow his writing at ericclaytonwrites.com and sign up for his Substack at ericclayton.substack.com.  

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Temuera Morrison, left, is Boba Fett and Ming-Na Wen is Fennec Shand in Lucasfilm's "The Book of Boba Fett," exclusively on Disney+. (Lucasfilm Ltd.)

What can 'The Book of Boba Fett' teach Catholics about mystery and intimacy?

TV review: I'm the target audience for "Star Wars" everything, but Easter eggs and fan service don’t necessarily make for good storytelling. Was delving into the mystery of bounty hunter Boba Fett the right call?

Always prepared, Nana bought this Christmas gift four months before she died. (Eric Clayton)

4 months before her death, Nana bought my infant daughter a gift. Here's what it taught us about transcendent love.

When all the presents are unwrapped, the food put away and the decorations taken down, will you have made Christ's love known to those around you? If not, you might reconsider just what you're preparing for this season. 

Lebron James and Bugs Bunny star in a scene from the animated, live-action movie "Space Jam: A New Legacy." (CNS/Warner Bros. Pictures)

'Space Jam: A New Legacy' shows us why we should fear algorithms

The Looney Tunes, LeBron James and a completely over-the-top, high-stakes basketball game make "Space Jam" a fun movie. But underneath the laughter lie serious questions about the meaning of life in the age of algorithms and artificial intelligence.

Mobius (Owen Wilson), left, and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) in a scene from Marvel Studios' "Loki" on Disney+ (Marvel Studios/Chuck Zlotnick)

What Disney's 'Loki' teaches us about the divine

TV review: Though Loki's a far cry from a Catholic Christian understanding of divinity, he does come closest in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to embodying a character that is both fully divine and uncomfortably human.

Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff and Paul Bettany as Vision in Marvel Studios' "Wandavision," exclusively on Disney+. (Courtesy of Marvel Studios/Dmedmedia.disney.com)

How 'WandaVision' can teach us this Lent

Watching "WandaVision" was not one of my Lenten promises. But now that the series is over — and I've seen how it all plays out — I wonder if it should've been.

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