Jesus of Hollywood, A Review
Few books on film and religion are as insightful as Adele Reinhartz’s Jesus of Hollywood. Here, she blends film scholarship with scriptural analysis…
Happy Thanksgiving!
After you’ve all finished stuffing yourself with turkey and football, head on over to Homebrewed Christianity to listen to their newest podcast featuring…
Back to the Beginning…
Looking ahead to today’s opening of the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, I decided to look back at Casino Royale last…
A Bloody Mess…
Twenty-first century cinematic ministers fare little better than their predecessors. Southerners in contemporary cinema never get it easy either. Combine the two and…
Virtual Dystopia
One of the most interesting parts of Conrad Ostwalt’s book, Secular Steeples, is his comparison of secular and sacred apocalyptic films. One of…
New Homebrewed Christianity Podcast
Our friends Tripp Fuller and Chad Crawford have a new podcast up over at Homebrewed Christianity featuring Phyllis Tickle and a capsule review…
The Real Thing…
Looking at religious documentaries that expose a certain element of Christianity, we can trace a thread back at least to 1972 and the…
“Without Them, I’m Not Me…”
These are the words that Tammy Faye Messner (formerly Bakker) uses to describe her outrageous eyelashes in the opening of the documentary The…
W.: A Pop Theology Dialogue
We are trying something new here at Pop Theology. I recently went to see W. with a few friends including Pop Theology contributor…