After Life
One of the most influential books that I have read over the past few years has been Marcus Borg‘s The Heart of Christianity,…
The Times They Are A-Changin’
What do Buddhism, the drug age, the automobile, and Pentecostalism have in common? In different ways, they have all influenced the current state…
Religion and Film: A Review
Don’t let the length fool you…S. Brent Plate‘s latest book, Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World, packs a serious…
Screening Worship
At its basic level, Michael G. Bausch’s Silver Screen Sacred Story: Using Multimedia in Worship is about change in the church. The questions…
Ten Questions with Brent Plate
Religious Dispatches just posted a Q & A with religion and film expert S. Brent Plate around his new book, Film and Religion: …
Evangelical Media
To understand the challenges that evangelical media and mainstream media pose to one another and the challenges that changing technologies pose to the…
Sanctuary Cinema: A Review
The contemporary state of affairs between Hollywood and the Christian church betrays a complex history that entails cooperation, appropriation, and rejection. Speaking broadly,…
Jesus at the Movies: A Review
In her book, Jesus of Hollywood, Adele Reinhartz claimed that Jesus films often tell us more about the socio-cultural locations of their filmmakers…
Jesus of Hollywood, A Review
Few books on film and religion are as insightful as Adele Reinhartz’s Jesus of Hollywood. Here, she blends film scholarship with scriptural analysis…