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October 2009

October 28, 2009

The Family that Sits Together, Stays Together

A local sports talk radio host frequently comments on the importance of family, arguing that...

October 28, 2009

Screwball Theology

Film and religion professor Terry Lindvall recently alerted me to Theodora Goes Wild (1936), a...

October 23, 2009

Seriously, God…

It's hard to talk about the Coen brothers' most spiritual film, because in one way...

October 15, 2009

Stardom and Spirituality

This fall, I have been teaching a course entitled Theological Crises and the Development of...

October 12, 2009

Anticipating Antichrist

Lars von Trier's Antichrist is one of the few films that I really want to...

October 10, 2009

Standing with the Other

Barrack Obama's reception of the Nobel Peace Prize pleased, puzzled, and perturbed in equal measure...

September 2009

September 18, 2009

Some Thoughts on Broadcasting Worship…

While re-watching Frost/Nixon, I was struck by one of the opening lines of the film. ...

September 17, 2009

A Boy and His Dogs

I don't know how it escaped me, but a draft of this review has been...

September 16, 2009

Graphic High Art

Asterios Polyp. It's either the name of an obscure Greek philosopher or some sort of...

August 2009

August 19, 2009

District 9: A Pop Theology Conversation

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay and I discuss one of the year's best movies after...

August 18, 2009

Michael Vick: On Judgement and Participation

Whenever pop culture icons exhibit bad behavior...behavior that would ruin the careers and lives of...

August 13, 2009

The Gospel According to U2

While I was living in London in Spring 2004, I came across a selection of...

August 06, 2009

Teaching Religion and Film: A Review

As I have mentioned in other reviews of film and religion books, the interdisciplinary field...

August 04, 2009

A Graphic Depiction of the Flood

We are quickly approaching the four year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I was living in...

August 03, 2009

(Un)Funny People

In his only talking role in The Unholy Three , silent film star Lon Chaney...

July 2009

July 28, 2009

Heartbreakingly Horrific…

Over the past couple of years, I have become a devoted follower of Dark Horse...

July 24, 2009

A Princely Offering

Thankfully, with each new Harry Potter film, I have a thoroughly enjoyable experience while being...

July 20, 2009

Irreversible: A Review

I recently heard a story about the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa who, upon accepting...

July 15, 2009

After Life

One of the most influential books that I have read over the past few years...

July 09, 2009

Bay's Movie(s) not Transforming

Two things we know about Michael Bay: he loves to blow stuff up and he...

July 03, 2009

Starting the Conversation: Film, Homosexuality, and the Church

Dr. Frank Tupper recently attempted to lead a seminar on Baptists, homosexuality, and the Church...

June 2009

June 26, 2009

Anthea Butler on Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson

Religion Dispatches has an interesting article up this morning entitled "When the Gods Die: Michael...

June 25, 2009

R.I.P. K.o.P.

Unless you're working the night shift and have just woken up for work, you probably...

June 23, 2009

The Times They Are A-Changin'

What do Buddhism, the drug age, the automobile, and Pentecostalism have in common? In different...

June 21, 2009

Year One: In the Beginning, There Was Schtick

A romp of Biblical ridiculousness proves there's nothing new under the sun. Review by Richard...

June 17, 2009

Theologians' Favorite Films, Part 3

After the jump, view the third and final group of theologians discussing their favorite films....

June 16, 2009

Theologians' Favorite Films, Part 2

After the jump, view the second group of theologians discuss their favorite films. Theologians' Favorite...

June 15, 2009

Theologians' Favorite Films, Part 1

At the Transforming Theology conference at Claremont this spring, Tripp Fuller and I interviewed the...

June 10, 2009

Pamela Blotner

Yesterday, I had the privilege of meeting a local artist, Pamela Blotner, works in sculpture,...

June 08, 2009

21st Century Breakdown: Green Day's Operatic Follow-up to American Idiot

The middle-aged boys of Green Day continue they're singular positions as composers of punk opera,...

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