Christ and Pop Culture
"What Bjelke and Shapiro model for each other is a relationship based on mutual respect, admiration, and kindness, as well as shared goals." Read more
"What Bjelke and Shapiro model for each other is a relationship based on mutual respect, admiration, and kindness, as well as shared goals." Read more
In the standard cultural and popular nomenclature, widows are black. But it is likely appropriate that ABC’s newest drama, which premiered its first two episodes Sunday night, is entitled Red Widow. For the show deliberately eschews black-and-white dichotomies, in its overall execution and particularly in its scrutiny upon the eponymous widow, who enters the business of drug smuggling as a means of attempting to extricate her children from a mess created by her extended family. Radha Mitchell plays the central... Read more
Each week in The Moviegoer, Nick Olson examines new and upcoming films. ***Spoiler Alert*** Set with great effect to a memorably haunting Thomas Newman score, Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects begins as a puzzle to be pieced together by giving the viewer a flash-forward glimpse of an apartment floor spoiled with fresh blood. The film is framed so as to leave the viewer with a foreboding sense of impending violence. After sufficiently provoking us with the question of what is going to... Read more
"When the perks are removed, we must deal with the loss and look at what's left: the motives of our hearts, for good or for ill." Read more
Article originally posted at Derek Rishmawy’s Reformedish blog, derekzrishmawy.com. A couple of years ago, Rob Bell wrote a little book about Heaven, Hell, and all that God stuff. You might have heard of it. If you haven’t, don’t worry about it—he didn’t say anything new. (Or necessarily very good. I’ll be honest, even though I was a Bell fan in college, I was pretty disappointed with that last book.) In any case, it kicked off a little bit of a crap-storm in the... Read more
Facebook is where Chicken Little lives. Each day, I am bombarded with messages about the different doomsday scenarios we are faced with as Americans. From gun control, to the decisions of the President, to the incompetence of Congress—my Facebook feed is a steady stream of how terrible things are right now. This also includes how the economy is crashing, the debt cannot possibly be paid off, and that the $85 billion dollar sequester is going to get everyone laid off... Read more
Each week in God and Country Music, Nick Rynerson gives country music a chance and examines the world of Americana, folk, alt-country, and popular country music. Great Americana music isn’t too difficult to find, at least if you are searching for it. Not because there is an abundance of it but because you can tell who gets Americana music (or No Depression) by looking at their influences and the bands they cover. And slowly, one great artist will lead you to... Read more
Last week I watched what may have been my last episode of “Bunheads” ever. And I’m willing to admit – unabashedly – that the possibility of a future bereft of “Bunheads” is more than a little sad. The hour-long ABC Family dramedy created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (of “Gilmore Girls” fame) aired its winter finale Monday, with no word from the network regarding the possibility of a second season. Though the show has only garnered a mediocre viewership compared to the... Read more
An examination of the importance of silence in connecting with our God. Read more
Every week on the Christ and Pop Culture Podcast, various Christ and Pop Culture writers delve deeper into recent articles and address some of the bigger issues in popular culture. Click here to listen! This week, editor-in-chief Richard Clark and editor Ben Bartlett are joined by Pop Matter’s events editor, Kiel Hauck to discuss the problems with what we call “Christian Music,” then veer into what make Praise and Worship music great. Finally, they discuss the possible problems with the... Read more
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