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October 2009

October 28, 2009
A local sports talk radio host frequently comments on the importance of family, arguing that...
October 28, 2009
Film and religion professor Terry Lindvall recently alerted me to Theodora Goes Wild (1936), a...
October 23, 2009
It's hard to talk about the Coen brothers' most spiritual film, because in one way...
October 15, 2009
This fall, I have been teaching a course entitled Theological Crises and the Development of...
October 12, 2009
Lars von Trier's Antichrist is one of the few films that I really want to...
October 10, 2009
Barrack Obama's reception of the Nobel Peace Prize pleased, puzzled, and perturbed in equal measure...

September 2009

September 18, 2009
While re-watching Frost/Nixon, I was struck by one of the opening lines of the film. ...
September 17, 2009
I don't know how it escaped me, but a draft of this review has been...
September 16, 2009
Asterios Polyp.  It's either the name of an obscure Greek philosopher or some sort of...

August 2009

August 19, 2009
Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay and I discuss one of the year's best movies after...
August 18, 2009
Whenever pop culture icons exhibit bad behavior...behavior that would ruin the careers and lives of...
August 13, 2009
While I was living in London in Spring 2004, I came across a selection of...
August 06, 2009
As I have mentioned in other reviews of film and religion books, the interdisciplinary field...
August 04, 2009
We are quickly approaching the four year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.  I was living in...
August 03, 2009
In his only talking role in The Unholy Three , silent film star Lon Chaney...

July 2009

July 28, 2009
Over the past couple of years, I have become a devoted follower of Dark Horse...
July 24, 2009
Thankfully, with each new Harry Potter film, I have a thoroughly enjoyable experience while being...
July 20, 2009
I recently heard a story about the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa who, upon accepting...
July 15, 2009
One of the most influential books that I have read over the past few years...
July 09, 2009
Two things we know about Michael Bay:  he loves to blow stuff up and he...
July 03, 2009
Dr. Frank Tupper recently attempted to lead a seminar on Baptists, homosexuality, and the Church...

June 2009

June 26, 2009
Religion Dispatches has an interesting article up this morning entitled "When the Gods Die:  Michael...
June 25, 2009
Unless you're working the night shift and have just woken up for work, you probably...
June 23, 2009
What do Buddhism, the drug age, the automobile, and Pentecostalism have in common?  In different...
June 21, 2009
A romp of Biblical ridiculousness proves there's nothing new under the sun.  Review by Richard...
June 17, 2009
After the jump, view the third and final group of theologians discussing their favorite films....
June 16, 2009
After the jump, view the second group of theologians discuss their favorite films. Theologians' Favorite...
June 15, 2009
At the Transforming Theology conference at Claremont this spring, Tripp Fuller and I interviewed the...
June 10, 2009
Yesterday, I had the privilege of meeting a local artist, Pamela Blotner, works in sculpture,...
June 08, 2009
The middle-aged boys of Green Day continue they're singular positions as composers of punk opera,...
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