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Tony Jones is an ecclesiologist. He blogs and serves as the theologian in residence at Solomon’s Porch in Minneapolis. His second book on the ECM drops in August, 2011: The Church Is Flat: The Relational Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church Movement. It turns out that David Fitch is disappointed with the Emergent/ing/ence Church Movement […]
The Gospel Coalition recently posted a review of Tree of Life that makes some interesting claims toward the end. I have emphasized the words that caught my attention: “Recently, philosophers have begun asking the question of whether or not film has/will become a new form of thought itself.” “If these analyses turn out to be […]
The entirety of the “Church and Postmodern Culture” book series (to date) is now available electronically through Logos Bible Software. This creates a searchable version of all the books which could aid research and study. FYI.
Author Matthew Dickerson explores the use of food in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, and why food is the defining feature of the Hobbits’ culture.
I suppose we, as a blog that concerns itself with the media, would be a bit remiss if we had not given some attention to the recent scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. The well-known and highly successful media conglomerate has been charged with phone hacking. Allegedly, News of the World, a subsidiary of News […]
This review is the second from Filmwell’s guest contributor Lauren Wilford. • “You don’t know me. I like that.” So says the She of Beginners to the He, on one of those floating walks that fill up the start of a relationship. She’s teasing him, but we know it’s more than a bit of banter– it’s an […]
What has Become of the Emerging Church? The Problem of the Never Ending Tolerant Conversation By David Fitch The emerging church frustrates me. Perhaps this is my problem because I am expecting it be something it was never intended to be. Nonetheless, the emerging church frustrates me because, over the past ten years, it asked […]
I’ve long been intrigued by the possibility of links between poetry and film. There aren’t many – there are films about poets and films that feel like poetry, but besides Billy Collins’ Action Poetry, I don’t know of a lot that actually draw their primary material from a poem. (Do you? I’d like to hear […]