I absolutely love and am fascinated with apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic narratives.  To me, they speak far more about our current theological, philosophical, and political state of affairs than they ever do about how it’s all going to go down in the end (which despite popular evangelical opinion is what they were always intended to do).  [...]

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Frequent Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay offers his take on the music video for Lady Gaga’s new song, “Alejandro,” after the jump.  You can view the video here on the Pop Theology home page.

I’ve got a one sentence review of Splice, the latest sci-fi/horror film currently playing in theaters, but it doesn’t an article make.  If you really want to read/hear it, you’ll have to swear you’re not planning on watching it…in theaters at least…because if I had to suffer through the film, you do too.  For my [...]

Film critic Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle recently said that we are in a Golden Age of comedy.  It’s hard to ignore, given the release of films like Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You, Man, The Hangover, and now Get Him to the Greek, to name a few.  While the latter, which released [...]

If any of you, like me, had tickets to U2’s second leg of their American 360 tour, then you were sorely disappointed to hear about the cancellation due to Bono’s surgery.  Yet, last week’s release of their DVD, U2 360 at the Rose Bowl, the recording of last Fall’s record-setting concert, should help ameliorate that [...]

I have always admired and deeply respected army and hospital chaplains for their emotional and spiritual strength and their ability to stand with those who mourn during the sacred time and space of loss.  The same could be said of those who must bear the actual bad news of the death of a loved one [...]

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 [...]

“All children are artists.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”  –Pablo Picasso
I came across this quote in, of all places, this week’s Sports Illustrated.  Yesterday, I finally got around to watching Son of Rambow (2007) and found the quote and the film to be a perfect match.  The film [...]

Mara Einstein argues, in her book Brands of Faith:  Marketing Religion in a Commercial Age, that we live in a culture of “planned obsolescence.”  This is hard to deny given the frequency with which, for example, Apple releases new iPods and iPhones.  Yet she turns her attention to the effects that such consumerism has on [...]

Last weekend, I finally got around to watching Precious, a film deserving of all the critical acclaim heaped on it since its release.  Check out the review after the jump.