In his review of Rachel Held Evans’ recent and somewhat controversial book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master (Thomas Nelson, 2012), Richard Beck identified…
Nearly 450 years after his death, the artwork of Michelangelo is still making the news. This time as the subject of a study on Neuroesthetics. Having been around only about a decade, the discipline of neuroesthetics is based on the…
“At best reading theological texts alongside literature is illuminating” – Susan Felch [1] When working in the interdisciplinary contexts, the hazards and pitfalls of crossing thresholds, mapping contested territories and speaking in the grammars (often not interchangeable) of two distinct…
Dr. E. John Walford began teaching art history at Wheaton College in 1981. He is author of Jacob van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape (Yale University Press, 1991), and Great Themes in Art (Prentice-Hall, 2002). As a student at…
One of the most intriguing individuals at work in the art world today is Marcus Coates, a curiously atavistic figure, part-shaman, part-performance artist, whose most recent venture has been a long-term residency in and around London’s Elephant and Castle, documented…
We loved Suzanne Collins’ trilogy The Hunger Games (THG). While the movie is okay, we think the books are great. So, when we set out to do a meta-review of Christian writing on THG, we knew we would be biased.…
William D. Romanowski. Reforming Hollywood: How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, xv + 298 pp., £18.99 cloth. In this thorough, fact-filled account of the interaction between Protestantism and the American cinema, William D.…
The film Des Hommes et des Dieux (Of Gods and Men) was released in 2010, directed by Xavier Beauvois. Besides becoming a French blockbuster, it spread like wildfire through religious communities and the rest of the Catholic community. I remember my Jesuit-run…
Last May, two of my best friends and I went to see The Avengers at the cinema near our university. I should disclose from the start that I am not necessarily the target audience for the film. I like my…