Welcome to our weekly summary of our writers’ ventures beyond TSJ! Don’t forget that Mark Sinker and Hazel Southwell both have Patreons potentially worth your time and money, and the two of them collaborate on a podcast.

Other new things for you this week:

• Joshua Minsoo Kim guest-starred on Iain Mew’s AAA project, covering former best-selling video games. Kim’s topic? 1994’s Sam & Max Hit the Road.
• For Eclectic Literature, Isabel Cole wrote about her own loss, and refashioning, of faith, while reflecting on the His Dark Materials trilogy.
• For Living Lutheran, Josh Langhoff discussed why repetition can be useful in liturgy, and how “God can’t be trapped inside one particular liturgical framework.”
• Langhoff also considered the dispassionate equipoise of Thomas Rhett for City Pages.
• And finally, for Rock ‘n’ Roll Globe, Thomas Inskeep shared what the Cure’s Disintegration album, released in summer 1989, meant to him as a lonely teenager.