Tripp York

WWJR?

I teach a Christian Ethics course with the subtitle, Sex, Politics & Violence. The cool thing about it is (beyond the obvious), I can pretty much do whatever I want with it. Sometimes I stress one facet over another, focusing on certain ‘areas’ more so than others. Sometimes it stays in the realm of marriage, […]

Tripp York

Hey Jew, Don’t Let Me Down

The people we place in charge of us are so awesome. They’re proof that anyone can ‘make it’ here in the land of the free. Take, for instance, the lean mean fighting machine that is Oklahoma State Representative Dennis Johnson: After watching this clip, my friend Michael added, “They’re also good at throwing Christian babies […]

M. Leary

Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013)

    On paper, Upstream Color ticks a remarkable number of my boxes: Carruth? ✓ Lengthy sequences sans dialogue? ✓ Auteur struggle vibe? ✓ Economy of image across multiple planes of action? ✓ Responsive PR contact? ✓ Fetching composition? ✓ Alternative distribution? ✓ Arboreal? ✓ Really cosmic stuff going on?  ✓ Pascalian images of the “condition of men”? ✓ Lack of exposition? ✓ Rudy Rucker meets Orchid […]

Hannah Faith Notess

For Money

A sonnet about work.

M. Leary

Light Shining in a Dark Place (Sellars, ed. 2012)

I missed this post over at Pop Theology about a book to which I contributed last year, edited by Jeff Sellars (Light Shining in a Dark Place). I wrote a chapter called “Recalling Jesus: Form, Theory, and Trauma in Jesus Cinema.” Which the post summarizes well: He argues, quite rightly, “Excepting discussion of films like The Passion […]

Tripp York

Come on Out Fictional Transgender Friend of Batgirl

Bisexual Alysia Yeoh is the first transgender character in the DC Universe. It’s a universe that, apparently, takes its time with this sort of thing. What was once dismissed as an impossibility by the CCA (Comics Code Authority), has now become a reality in the mainstream comic book world of DC Comics. Of course, outside of […]