Where Religion Meets Pop Culture
Where Religion Meets Pop Culture
The moment word broke of the new Superman film, Man of Steel, directed by Zack Snyder, the comparisons between Superman and Jesus were…
Ryan: You’d think after blogging for six years we’d know, but it seems like new possibilities for this medium develop all the time.…
Prior to gay liberation, gay people, unable to come out, had little choice but to build magnificent closets. Mad King Ludwig built fairy-tale…
Continuing the bromance that is PopTheology.com, Ryan and I do a dialogue review for Star Trek: Into Darkness. Ryan: I think we’ve got…
In preparation for an upcoming film producers’ program, I’ve got a laundry list of films to watch and books to read. One of…
Pieta conjures up many beautiful artistic images of Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, the most familiar of which is undoubtedly Michelangelo’s…
I recently saw a couple of films back-to-back that couldn’t have been more different (I’m already in love with being in the center…
I’m currently working on an article on images of trauma in film for the independent film journal, Cinemascope. The call for papers included…
In recent years, much has been written about the historical relationship between religion (as an institution, and not just a theme) in the…