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Blitzen Trapper is a rock band from Portland, OR. We sat down in a seedy Wyoming hotel room with singer/songwriter Eric Earley to discuss the darkness of Americana and the new album American Goldwing. Live tour footage from a Blitzen Trapper show at the Seasons Performance Hall in Yakima, WA is included.

I was recently fortunate enough to be interviewed by the ever so interesting folks down at The Christian Post. This makes two interviews with them in the last few weeks. Yeah, I know . . . I wouldn’t trust me anymore, either. Unlike my previous interview, A Man’s Search for Satan, (kudos to them for […]

Once upon a time in American cinema, a character from the Middle East was likely to be the villain of the story. Upon other times, homosexual characters were portrayed as condemning caricatures. But today, if we meet a character who professes Christian faith, it’s a safe bet to assume he’ll be exposed as a charlatan, […]

Jo-Ann Badley and Stephanie Neill propose that the current interest in food in North American culture redresses cultural patterns of detachment in ways consonant with New Testament practices of communion, calling us to gratitude and recognition of the relational character of human living.

I’m beginning to wonder: How many cinematic masterpieces will I miss in my lifetime because nobody has bothered to make them available in America? This question is on my mind because I’ve just watched my imported blu-ray of Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy a fourth time, and my review will go up tomorrow at Image. It’s […]

This guest post by David Horstkoetter and the previous post come from the recent panel discussion hosted by the new Political Theologies Seminar at Marquette University.  The seminar is interested in theologies that intersect with contemporary political, social, economic, and cultural life. Participating faculty are  Dr. D. Stephen Long and Emeritus Fr. Thomas Hughson and […]

Amish quarrels, when they do happen, normally result in either reconciliation, banning and shunning, and/or just more Amish factions. Their founder, Jakob Ammann, discovered the non-reconciliatory end of hard-core Anabaptist living the hard way–that’s what you get for trying to dis’ us, fool! The new trend is not so much to shun, but to, apparently, […]