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September 2015

September 08, 2015

Killer Serials: MR. ROBOT, Season Finale

Killer Serials is a partnership between Theoblogy (Tony Jones) and Pop Theology. Having wrapped up the third...

August 2015

August 13, 2015

Killer Serials: MR. ROBOT, Season 1, Eps. 5-8

Tony Jones and I are back for another installment of Killer Serials where we discuss...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

The Netflix-ization of the Church

Editors’ Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of...

July 17, 2015

Killer Serials: MR. ROBOT, Season 1, Eps. 1-4

Having wrapped up the third season of Orange is the New Black, Tony Jones and I...

July 15, 2015

Killer Serials: ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, Season 3 Wrap-Up

In this installment of Killer Serials, Tony Jones and I look back over season 3...

July 09, 2015

Remembering Pedro and Sean — and why Marriage Matters

When you teach undergraduates, there are frequent moments that remind you that youth culture has...

July 07, 2015

Killer Serials: ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, Season 3, Eps. 10-13

We're back with the latest installment of Killer Serials, in which Tony Jones, and I...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Killer Serials: ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, Season 3, Eps. 7-9

The next installment of Killer Serials, in which Tony Jones and I discuss episodes 7-9...

June 29, 2015

SENSE8 and the Politics of Watching TV

The new Netflix series, Sense8 (by the Wachowski siblings) isn't a great series, but, set in the...

June 23, 2015

Killer Serials: ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, Season 3, Eps. 4-6

Tony and I are back with the second installment of Killer Serials and a look...

June 22, 2015

True Detective, “The Western Book of the Dead” Post Mortem

Given the ever-improving nature of television dramas, it's difficult to write confidently about a series...

June 16, 2015

KILLER SERIALS: Orange is the New Black, Season 3, Eps. 1-3

Good friend, theologian, and author Tony Jones and I are kicking off a new blog...

June 01, 2015

Grief, Revenge, and Other Ghosts of the Past in Netflix’s BLOODLINE

With so much good original Netflix content, you'd be forgiven for bailing on Bloodline after...

April 2015

April 20, 2015

Raging Devil: DAREDEVIL and the Failure of Imagination

Posts have been sparse on Pop Theology over the last few months. Richard and I...

August 2014

August 11, 2014

Summer Silliness: Sharknado 2 & Black Jesus

I never thought I’d say this, but thank God for cable television. As a Basic...

July 2014

July 21, 2014

Dear 20″ Plastic Baby Jesus…

For the second week in a row, The Leftovers focuses squarely on religion in its fourth...

July 14, 2014

This Is a Test

I "bought in" on The Leftovers even before the first episode aired. The pilot met all...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

The Leftovers: Cynics, Fools, and Prophetic Hyperbole

Yesterday morning at church, we discussed Jacques Lacan's notions of the cynic and the fool...

March 2014

March 10, 2014

Cross-Watching ‘Looking’ and ‘Tales of the City’

Perhaps it’s fitting for a television show located in San Francisco that such a fault...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

The Grammy Wedding: ‘Same Love,’ Different Interpretations

Last night, we were treated to one of the stranger spectacles in awards show history,...

December 2013

December 21, 2013

How do I love my neighbor Phil?

In a previous post outlining the homophobic comments of Phil Robertson, prior to the...

December 18, 2013

Phil Robertson Comes Out

The news is splashed all over the Internet today about Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson's...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

The Horror of the American Story

With work and moving taking up so much of my time these past few weeks,...

October 16, 2013

A ‘Glee’ Farewell to a Fallen Hero

Editor's Note: Rev. Philip Tanner is a committed 'Gleek,' and was, like all the fans...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

An Americana Cocktail

Of all the new series premiering over the next several weeks, this nerd's excited about...

August 2013

August 14, 2013

Duck Dynasty Blog #1: Til Duck Do Us Part

Welcome to the first entry in a regular blog on the A&E series...

July 2013

July 16, 2013

A Punk Prayer

With our recent move to L. A. and my participation in the Act One Producers...

July 09, 2013

A Religious Pilgrimage…Of Sorts

We spent the long 4th of July weekend down in Santa Ana, CA, visiting friends....

July 05, 2013

Bert and Ernie Are Gay—Get Over It

This week, the New Yorker came out with a cover that has already caused an...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

Dying in the Glass Closet

Prior to gay liberation, gay people, unable to come out, had little choice but to...