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…
One Dark Night
Along with the religion and film class in which I am a teaching assistant, I am also preparing for comprehensive exams, one of…
The Perfect (Moral) Storm
I am serving as a teaching assistant for my advisor’s Religion and the Cinema course. In preparation for an upcoming lecture on the…
A Country Gospel: Pop Theology Turns 200
For Pop Theology’s 200th post, we celebrate 1973, the year of the Jesus musical. That year saw the release of Jesus Christ Superstar,…
A Sacred and Secular Negotiation
In the closing minutes of his new documentary, Religulous, Bill Maher transitions from an agnostic point of view to an atheistic one. He…
Bad Movie Monday: The Happening
It’s been a while since my last bad movie Monday, what with the start-up of Monday Night Football and Heroes. With a little…