Ten from 2011
Before the new year gets any older, Richard and I offer up some of our “favorites” from 2011. If you’re not familiar with…
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…
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…
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 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…
The Help and the Influence of Story
Richard Lindsay reviews The Help, the film based on the novel of the same name that has taken book clubs and readers across…
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…
