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October 2008

October 31, 2008

The Real Thing…

Looking at religious documentaries that expose a certain element of Christianity, we can trace a...

October 30, 2008

"Without Them, I'm Not Me…"

These are the words that Tammy Faye Messner (formerly Bakker) uses to describe her outrageous...

October 29, 2008

W.: A Pop Theology Dialogue

We are trying something new here at Pop Theology. I recently went to see W....

October 28, 2008

Old Fashioned Television

Ironically, the greatest thing about the cable movie network AMC is its original television series...

October 27, 2008

One Dark Night

Along with the religion and film class in which I am a teaching assistant, I...

October 24, 2008

The Perfect (Moral) Storm

I am serving as a teaching assistant for my advisor's Religion and the Cinema course. ...

October 23, 2008

A Country Gospel: Pop Theology Turns 200

For Pop Theology's 200th post, we celebrate 1973, the year of the Jesus musical. That...

October 22, 2008

A Sacred and Secular Negotiation

In the closing minutes of his new documentary, Religulous, Bill Maher transitions from an agnostic...

October 14, 2008

Bad Movie Monday: The Happening

It's been a while since my last bad movie Monday, what with the start-up of...

October 09, 2008

Not So Ridiculous…

One of the great things about our Constitution is that it guarantees both the freedom...

October 07, 2008

Fireproof…

A couple of weeks ago, I watched and reviewed Flywheel, the first feature-length, widely-released film...

October 06, 2008

A Long Overdue Miracle…

It is certainly unthinkable that precious few, if any, Hollywood films have yet to focus...

September 2008

September 30, 2008

Before the Giants…

Before the surprising success of Facing the Giants, Alex and Stephen Kendrick, produced their first...

September 29, 2008

Shock me, shock me, shock me with that deviant behavior

Over the next year, I will be co-directing the sociology of religion movie night along...

September 22, 2008

Tekkonkinkreet

I am no anime or manga expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I...

September 16, 2008

Do You Believe In…

In college, I read a book that began to drastically change the way I thought...

September 15, 2008

New Leader…

Congratulations to Dr. Brad Braxton, former homiletics and New Testament professor at Wake Forest University...

September 15, 2008

The Flip Side of the Coin

Occasional Pop Theology contributor Daniel Skidmore provides a quick review of the Coen brothers' latest...

September 11, 2008

The Audacity of Despair

During the Olympics, President Bush sat down for a rather lengthy interview with Bob Costas. ...

September 10, 2008

Lifeboat

Pop Theology contributor Wendy Arce reviews a Hitchcock classic, Lifeboat. I recently saw Alfred Hitchcock’s...

September 09, 2008

Fall TV Preview

I received my favorite issues of Entertainment Weekly recently, the Fall telvision and movie previews. ...

September 08, 2008

Survival…

For two weeks during the summer, I took a course on American slavery and the...

September 02, 2008

You May Not Have Known His Name…

But you knew his voice... Film lovers around the world mourn the passing of legendary...

August 2008

August 28, 2008

Judas…

A host of Jesus films focus specifically on the titular character. The ways in which...

August 25, 2008

Forgive Us Our Trespasses…

Sex scandals have rocked the Christian church throughout the past decade. Whether child abuse in...

August 20, 2008

Sacred Identities…

Over the past year or so, I have been delving back into the worlds of...

August 18, 2008

Shining a Light…

The world of theology and film studies may well be the most popular and fastest-growing...

August 17, 2008

We're Here and We're Religious, Part 2

It is understandable, though unfortunate, that CNN's coverage of last night's Saddleback Presidential Forum was...

August 15, 2008

Old Time Rock-n-Roll?

This just in from occasional, and hopefully more frequent, poptheology contributor, Richard Lindsay. In the...

August 12, 2008

Two Weeks in August…

I love seasons...I need seasons. It must be part of my spiritual makeup. Perhaps this...

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