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January 2012

January 17, 2012

A Sacred (Version of) Hollywood?

Few arenas are as fruitful for the study of the history of American Christianity than...

January 12, 2012

Ten from 2011

Before the new year gets any older, Richard and I offer up some of our...

January 07, 2012

Lennon's Twitterers #Fail to Give Peace a Chance

Richard Lindsay here: On New Years Eve, Cee-Lo Green made the mistake of crossing the...

January 04, 2012

Oh My God, They're (Demi)Gods!

There's something to be said about a theology and pop culture scholar who takes The...

December 2011

December 29, 2011

Mad Men: Dream Come True TV (Review)

Who knows when Mad Men will return. Reports say "early 2012." If you can't wait,...

December 21, 2011

Faithful Doubt

Reading Peter Rollins' latest book, Insurrection, is kind of like watching someone dance on a...

December 19, 2011

A Beautiful Connection to the Past

Thirty-two thousand years is certainly a difficult length of time for us short-lived creatures to...

December 16, 2011

Hitchens Gets What's Coming to Him

Richard Lindsay shares his reflections on the death (and life) of Christopher Hitchens, the power...

December 14, 2011

Joss Whedon Call for Papers

Attention all Firefly, Buffy, X-Men, and all things geek lovers out there! I am co-editing...

December 12, 2011

Mashup Religion: A Review

Richard Lindsay reviews John McClure's new book, Mashup Religion. Check it out after the jump....

November 2011

November 29, 2011

Dinosaurs, Time Travel, and the Sovereignty of God

Fox's Jurassic era drama, Terra Nova, isn't the best series on television, but it's certainly...

November 23, 2011

Intelligent Zombies

Finally, zombies get the academic treatment that they deserve! Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro's...

November 10, 2011

Zombies Triumph

The Walking Dead has swept across American popular culture like, well, a zombie plague. The...

November 01, 2011

A Paranormal Reading Experience

"If you are not really confused by now, you have not been paying very close...

October 2011

October 31, 2011

Tebowing Tebow

Conversations about or comments on other people's public displays of faith inevitably say more about...

October 21, 2011

Kicking Off My Sunday Shoes: Footloose and the Church’s Dancing History

Sometime Pop Theology contributor and dancer extraordinaire, the Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber, gives us her...

October 20, 2011

A Review of Marzi: A Memoir

Marzena Sowa's memoirs of growing up during the fall of communism in Poland demand to...

October 17, 2011

Sherwood's Best Yet…With Qualifications

Unless you've been hiding under an entertainment rock for the past three years or so,...

October 17, 2011

A Horrific Past

Numerous scholars explore the cultural and political implications of monster and horror films for the...

October 07, 2011

A Real Human Being?

It might sound weird, but occasionally I'll see a film that I enjoy so much...

September 2011

September 27, 2011

Being Fully Alive on Higher Ground

Yet again, one of the best films of the year will not get the extensive...

September 15, 2011

The Help and the Influence of Story

Richard Lindsay reviews The Help, the film based on the novel of the same name...

September 02, 2011

Fear Those Who Fear God

There's a tradition of reading some of Jesus' more intense sayings as prophetic hyperbole. That...

August 2011

August 29, 2011

(Re)Visiting a Classic: "The Ox-Bow Incident"

The recent release of the West Memphis Three is a fitting excuse, if one is...

August 11, 2011

Wounded Warriors

In The Magicians, Lev Grossman asks what if our favorite fantasies and fairy tales were...

August 05, 2011

We Have Met the Aliens and They Is Us*

Richard Lindsay reviews the latest summer blockbuster, Cowboys and Aliens. More after the jump. Cowboys...

August 03, 2011

Crazy Stupid

Looking to Hollywood for marriage or relationship advice is about as foolish a task as...

August 01, 2011

A Host of Horrors: A Review of Dark Dreams 2.0

Filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro has described the horror film genre as "one of the last...

July 2011

July 27, 2011

It's All Over

Richard Lindsay and I finally get around to posting our thoughts on the latest Harry...

July 19, 2011

They Eat their Young, Don't They?

In preparation for an upcoming sermon I'm giving on Jacob wrestling with the angel, I've...

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