Check out Leah Schade’s review of Blade Runner 2049 over at EcoPreacher: Blade Runner 2049 is cli-fi (climate fiction) at its best with superb visual effects, an absorbing storyline, fascinating characters, and poignant religious/philosophical themes. Read more here.
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Fantasy and Pluralism: Unpacking the Religious Sources of The Wheel of Time
By Andrew D. Thrasher, ThM One of the best Fantasy series produced in the last 50 years, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s The Wheel of Time, a 15 book series of almost 15,000 pages produced over a 24 year span, encompasses a fantastic worldview displaying a pluralistic coherence of religious elements found in world religions….
GOD AND HER ENEMY ‘BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY’; CREATION AND HER RAPIST HUMANITY: AN EXPLORATION OF MOTHER!
From Ryan Bordow over at Sitting in the Cinema: Disclaimer: this is a personal interpretation of mother!, Darren Aronofsky’s latest film—a piece of cinema very much open to interpretation. While takeaways from the film differ based on subjective experience, I have drawn from the two deepest wells of my knowledge to dissect it: cinema analysis and…
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil in Game of Thrones
By Matthew William Brake [SPOILERS!!!] In the Christian circles I run in, there is some tension about whether Christian people should watch Game of Thrones because of some of the graphic, and specifically sexual, content (go over to the Popcorn Theology Facebook page if you don’t believe me). It is true that Game of Thrones…
Batman: An American Myth
By Aust Phoenix Two things make for a good hero: recognizable physical traits and the narrative arc of their story—their mythology. Batman is such a figure. Even without having read a comic or seen a movie, most people will know the basic premise of Batman’s story and recognize his outfit. Bruce Wayne is a son…
Listening to 80s Music with Karl Barth
By Jack Holloway I make a lot of “best of” playlists. Recently, I made a playlist of what I think are the 150 greatest 80s songs (find it here). I listened to hours and hours and hours and hours of 80s music, soaking it all in, and, like the Apostle Paul, “examining everything carefully, holding…
Ents, Hobbits, and Salvation in the Shadow of Charlottesville: David Roberts on “The God Who Saves”
A great engagement by David Roberts with the work of David Congdon over at DET: What form, then, does a such informed church assume in our present situation? I can speak only as a person of privilege in this space. But, in light of Congdon’s proposal, a few suggestions: A practiced, visible presence in the…
Uatu the Watcher and the Scandal of the Neo-Anabaptist Conscience
By Matthew William Brake My friend Jack Holloway wrote a blog not long ago on Anabaptist theology, critiquing it as an apolitical, “peace at all cost” theology that denies black experience and the need for participation in political systems by those who have been oppressed and are seeking systemic justice. Anabaptists commit so strongly to nonviolence…
Call for Papers: National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference: Coming to Indianapolis
I’m indebted to James McGrath for posting this CFP on his blog. Of particular note is the panel for Game Studies. Game Studies Area: 2018 PCA/ACA National Conference. deadline for submissions: October 1, 2017 full name / name of organization: Game Studies Area of PCA/ACA contact email: mwysocki@flagler.edu Read the rest of the CFP here.
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