THE GOD OF WILD PLACES: A Review
We’ve sequestered death, pushed it off to arm’s length. […] Hunting has changed that for me in a way that religion never did.…
Where Religion Meets Pop Culture
Where Religion Meets Pop Culture
We’ve sequestered death, pushed it off to arm’s length. […] Hunting has changed that for me in a way that religion never did.…
Let’s get this out of the way first: At the Drive-In were one of the most important bands in my life. They altered…
“We see a lot of war movies. We don’t really see a lot of movies about veterans,” said first time writer/director and Army…
For a generation of comedy fans, The Kids in the Hall gave us permission – not simply to laugh at life’s absurdities but…
The second season of Love Victor is now streaming on Hulu. In case you haven’t been camped out at your television during the…
In the latest episode of the Killer Serials podcast, Tony Jones and Ryan Parker discuss the finale of the HBOMax limited series, Beartown. They…
Before 2009 gets any older, I thought I’d better look back over the films that I saw in 2008 (or that were released…
A couple of months ago, film scholar and critic David Thomson spoke on NPR during the height of the Presidential election. He and…
We just can’t let go of the holiday spirit here at Pop Theology. Wendy Arce provides a belated review of two of the…
Yesterday morning, I heard a homily in which the priest talked about partaking of the Eucharist and how he (we) often do so…
In her book, Jesus of Hollywood, Adele Reinhartz claimed that Jesus films often tell us more about the socio-cultural locations of their filmmakers…
Richard Lindsay takes a break from holiday revelry to provide a great review of the HBO sketch comedy series, Little Britain USA.
I recently had the privilege of interviewing Marjorie Suchocki, a process theologian and Professor Emerita at the Claremont School of Theology, about her…
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button provides us with a character who is able to reflect back on her life as she lies…
Over the Christmas holidays, I saw two films that dealt with the meaning of life…or rather the meaning of life for two distinct…
In the latest episode of the Killer Serials podcast, Tony Jones and Ryan Parker discuss the finale of the HBOMax limited series, Beartown. They…
We’ve sequestered death, pushed it off to arm’s length. […] Hunting has changed that for me in a way that religion never did.…
It might sound like a weird question, but what comes first, perception or storytelling? The two are so intricately interwoven that by the…
Already vying for our favorite comic of the year, Judas (Boom! Studios), a four-issue series from writer Jeff Loveness and artist Jakub Rebelka. In it’s short…
Patrick Gray and Justin Skeesuck completed the Camino de Santiago in 2014. What set them apart from their fellow pilgrims is that Patrick…