Kicking Off My Sunday Shoes: Footloose and the Church’s Dancing History
Sometime Pop Theology contributor and dancer extraordinaire, the Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber, gives us her thoughts on the new Footloose remake and a…
A Review of Marzi: A Memoir
Marzena Sowa’s memoirs of growing up during the fall of communism in Poland demand to be told in the graphic novel genre. Her…
Sherwood’s Best Yet…With Qualifications
Unless you’ve been hiding under an entertainment rock for the past three years or so, you’ve no doubt heard about the phenomenal success…
A Horrific Past
Numerous scholars explore the cultural and political implications of monster and horror films for the times from which they emerge. Through these analyses,…
A Real Human Being?
It might sound weird, but occasionally I’ll see a film that I enjoy so much that I don’t want to write about it.…
Being Fully Alive on Higher Ground
Yet again, one of the best films of the year will not get the extensive release and wider attention that it deserves. Vera…
Fear Those Who Fear God
There’s a tradition of reading some of Jesus’ more intense sayings as prophetic hyperbole. That is, when Jesus in Mark 9:47, “If your…
(Re)Visiting a Classic: “The Ox-Bow Incident”
The recent release of the West Memphis Three is a fitting excuse, if one is actually needed, to return to (or watch for…
Wounded Warriors
In The Magicians, Lev Grossman asks what if our favorite fantasies and fairy tales were real? Not only real, but calling out to…
