Don’t let the length fool you…S. Brent Plate‘s latest book, Religion and Film:  Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World, packs a serious punch.  It represents yet another accomplished work of religion and film scholarship that 1) moves beyond a narrative-centered approach to film studies and 2) reveals that an in-depth analysis of film has [...]

Without a doubt, Pixar is one of the most creative and successful animation studios in the history of film.  For over ten years, they have turned out almost annual successes that continually entertain, amaze, and inspire.  Along the way, they have encouraged audiences to look at the everyday, mundane objects in life in completely different [...]

Here are the final selections from my interview with Barry Taylor.  In these videos, he discusses the fading sacred/secular divide in popular culture as well as atheistic sacrality and contemporary art.  Good stuff.

Last week, I attended the second session of the Transforming Theology Conference down at Claremont. This time, denominational leaders got together to discuss the future of said organizations. The organizers also invited a couple of folks from the Emergence movement to both offer their own opinions and challenge the leaders to consider the challenges that [...]