SXSW 2014: Part 2
The second half of my first SXSW experience was marked by two productive meetings for my new job at Aspiration Media. I finished…
SXSW Film: The First Half
It’s my first time to SXSW, so I quickly learned what a fool I was for planning on seeing so many films in…
Making (Religious) Meaning out of (Pop) Music
Few scholars of religion and popular culture are as thorough in their articulation of both methodology and findings (and limitations of said findings)…
A Beautiful Mystery
Every now and then, when I finish watching a movie, I ask myself, “What the hell just happened here?” Usually it involves some…
Death at the Movies: A Review
Few film and religion books are as intriguingly interreligious as Lyn and Tom Davis Genelli’s Death at the Movies: Hollywood’s Guide to the Hereafter.…
Wounded Healers
Two smaller “indie” films are getting vastly different treatment this awards season. The first, Enough Said, is being praised for Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ career highlighting…
The Grammy Wedding: ‘Same Love,’ Different Interpretations
Last night, we were treated to one of the stranger spectacles in awards show history, even taking into account Miley Cyrus’ twerking on…
Finding Grace in the Loud Places
I’m slowly gearing up for my first extended writing foray into non-film subject matter with a book on the prophetic implications of the…
