Marion Grau, Professor of Theology at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, makes her first (and hopefully not last!) contribution to Pop Theology on the cult classic, The Fifth Element.  Check it out after the jump.  Thanks Marion!

Thankfully, in the recent publication, Halos and Avatars:  Playing Video Games With God, editor Craig Detweiler and his contributors forego the well-worn arguments of whether or not video games promote violence and take a deeper look at their theological and spiritual potential.  A Belgian film, Ben X, reveals such potential while continuing to raise questions [...]

As far as pop-culture creations are concerned, The Wire is pretty much unbeatable across a number of genres.  Most critics worth their salt argue that it is, and will likely remain, the greatest television series in the history of the medium.  We’ve yet to see the end of, much less a beginning to, the creative [...]