ECCLESIOLOGY AND BASEBALL: Exploring the Church Through America’s Pastime Call For Papers Editors: Daniel J. Cameron, Ph.D. & Johanna DeHaven, M.A. “Baseball is just a game. But like religion, it has rituals. I need rituals. I need traditions. I need something to believe in, whether I worship in a church or a stadium. I believe…
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Extended Call for Papers: C.S. Lewis and Popular Culture
Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV Due: June 10, 2025 Initial Final Paper Due: September 15, 2025 C.S. Lewis has captured the imagination of twentieth-century readers by presenting a resonating, approachable Christianity that speaks to the modern age. His work has been influential for both children and adults in a range of genres…
Extended Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and LOST
Few commercial television series in recent memory have had as lasting an impact on audiences as has the series, LOST, which aired 2004–10, and is still available on streaming services. Its many themes still resonate today and are, indeed, timeless. Introduced in the pilot episode as a seemingly familiar “mystery/ action” drama that begins with…
Call for Papers: Baseball and Ecclesiology
ECCLESIOLOGY AND BASEBALL: Exploring the Church Through America’s Pastime Call For Papers Editors: Daniel J. Cameron, Ph.D. & Johanna DeHaven, M.A. “Baseball is just a game. But like religion, it has rituals. I need rituals. I need traditions. I need something to believe in, whether I worship in a church or a stadium. I believe…
Call for Papers: C.S. Lewis and Popular Culture
Volume Editor: George Tsakiridis, PhD Abstract and CV Due: May 15, 2025 Initial Final Paper Due: September 15, 2025 C.S. Lewis has captured the imagination of twentieth-century readers by presenting a resonating, approachable Christianity that speaks to the modern age. His work has been influential for both children and adults in a range of genres…
Call for Papers: Session “Visualizing conflicts and apocalypses. Religion and visual arts in a Polarized World”
Call for papers Session “Visualizing conflicts and apocalypses. Religion and visual arts in a Polarized World” Deadline 20 December International Society for the Sociology of Religion June 30 – July 4, 2025 Kaunas (Lithuania) Organized by Francesco Piraino – University of Bologna and Kees de Groot – Tilburg University For many years the relationship between…
Oppenheimer and the Deification of Humanity
By Walter Staggs, PhD The gap between what a film is meant to convey versus what actually gets conveyed (and therefore lost) can often be vast. In this case, though, Christopher Nolan delivers on his assertion that Oppenheimer is about consequences, particularly the kind that are out of our control once the genie is out…
Reflections on Raya and the Last Dragon Part 2: On Steps of Faith and the Redemptive Power of Charity
By Jeremy E. Scarbrough This is the continuation of a two-part reflectionon themes that stood out to me after viewing Raya and the Last Dragon when it debuted. In Part I, I pondered the worldview-nature of narratives in general and Raya’s fascination with the human condition in particular. I also considered the significance of sacrifice in the film….
Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and the Moral Circle
By Haruo Gomes To put it simply, the moral circle is the people we care about. Our understanding of it is usually based on William Lecky’s History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne. William observes that “at one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class,…
Faith, Hope, and Love in Daredevil: Born Again
By John Markle In September of 1986, American comic book writer Frank Miller published arguably one of the most well-composed comic books of all time, Daredevil: Born Again. In Daredevil: Born Again, a continuation of Miller’s earlier Daredevil issues, Matthew Murdock, known by few as the heroic Daredevil of Hell’s Kitchen, goes through a spiritual…
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