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Mad Men: Dream Come True TV (Review)

Dec 29, 2011 No Comments by

Who knows when Mad Men will return. Reports say “early 2012.” If you can’t wait, you can always relive your favorite episodes on AMC or pop in a DVD. For fans who want to give a little extra thought to the series, you should check out Gary R. Edgerton‘s collection of essays, Mad Men: Dream [...]

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Dinosaurs, Time Travel, and the Sovereignty of God

Nov 29, 2011 1 Comment by

Fox’s Jurassic era drama, Terra Nova, isn’t the best series on television, but it’s certainly not the worst. I’ve been catching up on the first season on DVR and have been intrigued by the many issues it addresses in each episode. I was most surprised by the presence of an extra wearing a stole in [...]

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Krump Theology: Street Kingdom, Faith, and America’s Best Dance Crew

May 23, 2011 No Comments by

The Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber, pastor of Wake Forest Baptist Church, GTU PhD grad, artist, and dancer extraordinaire, offers a Pop Theology first with her article on krump and theology. More (with videos) after the jump.

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BBC’s Being Human: Monsters in the Closet, Parts 2 & 3

May 11, 2011 No Comments

Richard Lindsay undertakes the daunting task of reviewing the entire second and third seasons of BBC’s supernatural series, Being Human.

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Being (Really) Human

Aug 09, 2010 No Comments

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay reviews Being Human, the BBC vampire/ghost/werewolf series import currently on its second season on BBCA.

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Play for that Money

Jun 07, 2010 No Comments

This summer will mark the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and by then, David Simon‘s newest series, Treme will have come to  close.  Its twenty episodes will serve as a fitting reminder of the devastation that that storm, and the ensuing floods, wrought on countless lives, a devastation that continues to plague many lives even [...]

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Forget LOST, Get BAD

Mar 25, 2010 No Comments

Forget Lost, AMC’s Breaking Bad is currently the best television series going right now…by a mile.  In fact, the first 5-10 minutes of the season three opener is better than the entire final season of Lost thus far.  After the jump, I’ll give a very brief synopsis of the first two seasons and the first [...]

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Justified is Righteous

Mar 23, 2010 1 Comment

In one of the concluding lines to the first episode of the new FX series, Justified, Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), an on-the-ropes Deputy U.S. Marshal, sneaks in to his ex-wife’s house for a late-night chat.  In the course of their conversation, she tells him, “Raylan, you might just be the angriest man I’ve ever known.”  [...]

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BEING ERICA: RE/MEMBERING SIN!

Dec 09, 2009 1 Comment

Check out the latest from Jason Derr on Being Erica after the jump.

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FlashForward: Paradoxology and the Work of God

Nov 18, 2009 2 Comments

Check out the latest from Jason Derr after the jump, an attempt to look at the theological concepts in the ABC TV series, FlashForward.  The article is written in consideration of the first six episodes and not of the series as a whole.

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