Review: Don’t Stop Believin’ (in pop culture)
Robert K. Johnston, Craig Detweiler, Barry Taylor, eds. Don’t Stop Believin’: Pop Culture and Religion from Ben-Hur to Zombies, Louisville, Westminster John Knox Press, 2012…
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Everything is Awesome: Two Theologies of Creativity in The LEGO Movie
Warning: MAJOR spoilers ahead. In The LEGO Movie, average construction worker Emmet is told he is the Special, the prophesied saviour of the Lego…
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Popular Music and the Sentimentality of Memory – Part II
My aim here is to follow up a previous question addressing whether or not popular music creates overly-sentimental versions of biography for our imaginations…
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Visiting Scholars Series: Sanctifying Perception – Idols, Icons, and Dark Flesh
A little girl wants lighter skin. She stares at the back of her hand and says, “I just don’t like the way brown looks,…
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Popular Music and the Sentimentality of Memory
Does popular music create overly-sentimental versions of biography for our imaginations, or does popular music enliven our imaginations to reconsider some of our conceptions…
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Respecting the Unholy: The Demonic On Screen
Hollywood is never short of a horror franchise, particularly in the month of October. Often these representations of evil are gimmick-laden thought experiments into…
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From Hyrule to Mass Effect: Video Games as a Conduit for Theological Interaction
As anyone with a strong theology of creation will agree, art, at its best, presents us with a unique vantage point on God’s Truth,…
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Is Christianity Unified?: A Perspective from True Blood
On Facebook several weeks ago, a friend mentioned in a passing status something about Christian unity and the division of denominations to which someone…
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Lent, Facebook and Desire
Are you giving up Facebook for Lent? Lots of people are doing it. In a 2012 survey published on Christianity Today and generated using Twitter,…
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