About Brett McCracken

Brett McCracken lives in Los Angeles but has roots in the Midwest, as well as a continuing and vibrant streak of wanderlust (i.e. he travels a lot). He currently works full-time for Biola University as managing editor for Biola magazine. In his spare time, Brett writes movie reviews and features for Christianity Today as well as contributing frequently to Relevant magazine.

Brett studied history, communications, and English at Wheaton College and graduated in 2005. In 2008 he received a masters degree in cinema and media studies at UCLA. In graduate school Brett’s research interests focused on transcendent aesthetics in film, Christians and cinema, new media theory, user-generated content/wikinomics, and contemporary issues in the television industry. He also edited the journal Mediascape while at UCLA.

Like anyone else, Brett spends his free time indulging in the finer things in life: church, family, friends, cinema, literature, music, poetry, sports, traveling, good food and drink, being outside, etc… He probably indulges in some of this a little too much (as it is his job to do so).

The Search is his first (and still experimental) foray into the blogosphere. The site was birthed in July 2007 out of a fascination with search engines (as the increasingly dominant metaphor of the 21st century experience) and a general affection for the existential notion of “the search” as coined in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer. The Search exists for any and every one of us who—in seeking truth, dialogue, epiphany, and connection—feels the spiritual pull toward that state of “being on to something” bigger and brighter than ourselves.