Category: Pop Culture and Theology
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ETS Paper 2012: Hollywood, Geneva, and Athens
So, earlier this year I submitted the abstract for my thesis as a proposal for this years annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. Surprisingly, it was accepted, and I was faced with the prospect of editing it down to a paper that could be coherently presented in 40 minutes or so. I put this…
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Popologetics: Popular Culture in Christian Perspective
Every now and then (twice now in my case) someone else writes a book that as soon I start reading, I wish/feel like I should/could have written it. I had the experience last year with Lit! and had it again this summer with Popologetics. Even without the Chuck Klosterman reference in the introduction, I would…
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Why There Were No Tolerance Police At The Sandusky Trial
First off, in light of the recent events at Penn State, I’d like to say I’m glad the punishments were as severe as they were. I’m also glad that Jerry Sandusky was convicted swiftly and it appears that justice was served. I think what he did was not just wrong, but was damaging to the…
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Why The Grey Would Be Nietzsche’s New Favorite Movie
A couple of weeks back, we had a few friends from our college group over to watch movies. Friday night we watched John Carter, deciding last minute to postpone watching The Grey until the next day when there were less freshman girls in attendance. Not sure that John Carter was the better movie in that…
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Liberal Arts For The Christian Life
I’m bet you haven’t heard of this book. It has flown under the radar, but since I’m prone to stalking Crossway’s upcoming releases page, I noticed it about a month or so back. Without really knowing much about it other than the title, I thought it might make for some good summer reading. Overview While…
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Worldly Wisdom on the Nature of Adultery
Don’t cheat one someone. I’m serious. It’s not worth it. So Chuck Klosterman tells us the second chapter/day into his road trip epic Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story. I introduced you to Klosterman yesterday. Today, I thought it might worthwhile to show you how insightful his perspective can be. After assuring us…
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3 Authors For Your Summer Reading
On Monday, I shared my Top 10 Books I’ve read so far this year. I didn’t include re-reads on that list, but it’s become a summer tradition at this point to re-read several books by 3 authors in particular. To kick off “List Thursday,” I thought I’d let you know who those authors are so you…
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Why The Spinning Top in Inception Doesn’t Matter
In what’s become statistically the most popular post on this blog, I suggested that Inception, the film, was a type of inception itself. Or, more memorably (and SEO-friendly) there is inception within Inception. One of the commenters there brought up the idea of the movie itself film being a dream, which I like. But I…
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Marturo Collective Reading: Popologetics
After a brief hiatus, we’re picking back up with a book for the Marturo Collective. Since the focus has been on apologetics, and given that a) summer is upon us, and b) we all like movies and pop culture generally, Ted Turnau’s recently released Popologetics seems like a great choice. I haven’t read through the…
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4 Posts On Christian Filmmaking
As I mentioned a couple of weeks back when I posted on The Hunger Games, I’m going to start talking more about pop culture here, and in particular movies. Toward that end, I wanted to point your attention to three posts on The Gospel Coalition site as conversation starters. These posts are tailored more to…