Mad Men: Dream Come True TV (Review)
Who knows when Mad Men will return. Reports say “early 2012.” If you can’t wait, you can always relive your favorite episodes on…
Faithful Doubt
Reading Peter Rollins‘ latest book, Insurrection, is kind of like watching someone dance on a high wire. I don’t say this often (if…
A Beautiful Connection to the Past
Thirty-two thousand years is certainly a difficult length of time for us short-lived creatures to grasp. A central event that helps many people…
Joss Whedon Call for Papers
Attention all Firefly, Buffy, X-Men, and all things geek lovers out there! I am co-editing a (hopefully) forthcoming collection of essays on Joss…
Dinosaurs, Time Travel, and the Sovereignty of God
Fox’s Jurassic era drama, Terra Nova, isn’t the best series on television, but it’s certainly not the worst. I’ve been catching up on…
Intelligent Zombies
Finally, zombies get the academic treatment that they deserve! Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro‘s collection of essays, Better Off Dead: The Evolution…
Zombies Triumph
The Walking Dead has swept across American popular culture like, well, a zombie plague. The comic book is one of the most critically…
A Paranormal Reading Experience
“If you are not really confused by now, you have not been paying very close attention.” So says Jeffrey J. Kripal towards the…
Tebowing Tebow
Conversations about or comments on other people’s public displays of faith inevitably say more about the commentator than they do about the practitioner.…