“I can understand somebody going to the movies because there’s nothing else to do, but when somebody really wants to go, and even walks fast so as to get there quicker, then it depresses hell out of me. Especially if I see millions of people standing in one of those long, terrible lines, all the […]

In 2004, 2005 and 2006, Arts & Faith polled its members and came up with a series of lists of 100 recommended “spiritually significant” films. After a four year hiatus, nominations are in progress for a 2010 edition of the A&F 100, so it seems high time to opinionate about which recent movies might be considered for the forthcoming list.

Here in part three of this interview, Eugene McCarraher talks about, among other things, the Manhattan Declaration, Radical Orthodoxy, and Herbert McCabe.

Letters of Note

Finally, the Criterion Collection has brought out Rossellini’s World War II triptych in a lavish box set.

Here we present the final installment in our little symposium on Graham Ward’s Politics of Discipleship–replaying a discussion of the book that took place at the American Academy of Religion last November.  Today we post Graham Ward’s response to Ron Kuipers and Luke Bretherton.  Ward, as readers no doubt know, is Professor of Contextual Theology […]

McSweeney’s has posted the definitive list. Including: Horse Running for 30 Seconds and Theodore Roosevelt Shakes the Hands of Many

PopMatters explores some of the themes lurking in of my favorite anime series: The animated series Cowboy Bebop is a blend of classic film noir motifs mixed into a futuristic setting that reverses the roles of gender and character. Consisting of a concise 26 episodes and one movie that doesn’t drag out the story, the […]

In part two of this three-part interview, Christian historian and cultural critic Eugene McCarraher reflects on the “Obama Doctrine,” Niebuhrian realism, and the usefulness of maps.