Christ and Pop Culture
The Crucifixion and Ice Cream. Inside Orlando’s most unusual theme park, the Holy Land Experience. Read more
The Crucifixion and Ice Cream. Inside Orlando’s most unusual theme park, the Holy Land Experience. Read more
Jeffrey Wells finds the new Sex in the City movie vomit-worthy. [HT: Overstreet] Read more
It's an old scenario that television viewers have watched recur for years: boy meets girl, falls in love, hides his love or faces rejection, as the tension builds fans yearn for their union, until finally it happens and the episodes that follow are awash (either concluding the whole series, or just simply ruining it)! We saw it with Ross and Rachel, with Stephan Urkel and Laura Winslow, and with David and Donna (Beverly Hills 90210). Perhaps this is why I am so desperate not to see Jim and Pam wed. I like the show The Office too much! Read more
C.S. Lewis’ Fiction for Adults Read more
Weezer does Internet Pop Culture. Read more
“The Faith of Flanders.” Ned, not Belgium. Mark Pinsky, author of The Gospel According to the Simpsons, writes about one of pop culture’s favorite Christians in The Wall Street Journal. Read more
The Narnian gives the reader a sense of the development and scope of Lewis’s intellectual and emotional life—often in relation to the more “factual” events of that life. Entertaining and accessible, Jacobs’s biography is ideal for the reader who has encountered the Chronicles of Narnia and wants to know how they relate to Lewis’s other writings, especially his apologetic works like Mere Christianity. Read more
“Making the Best of it: Following Christ in the Real World” Who are we for Christ Today? This is the central question for John Stackhouse’s new book. Read more
Alan Noble takes a look at the new Indy movie. When I first heard that Lucas and Spielberg were making a new Indiana Jones film, I wanted to track Lucas down and give him my $6.25 so I wouldn't have to watch another classic franchise become lost to bad dialog and not-really-believable digital effects. I left our local movie theater 20 minutes ago and I am pleased to say that my fears were misplaced--sort of. Read more
Spike Lee on Death and Dignity: “I always treat life and death with respect, but most people don’t,” Lee said at a news conference Tuesday. “Look, I love the Coen brothers; we all studied at NYU. But they treat life like a joke. Ha ha ha. A joke. It’s like, ‘Look how they killed that guy! Look how blood squirts out the side of his head!’ I see things different than that.” Read more
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