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This year’s Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film is as thrilling for its romance as for its murder mystery. But while it thinks it ends on a triumphant major chord, it’s actually rather dissonant.

A review of Daniel Bell Jr.’s JUST WAR AS CHRISTIAN DISCIPLESHIP: RECENTERING THE TRADITION IN THE CHURCH RATHER THAN THE STATE.

Part 1: Faith and Doubt in a Revolutionary Divinity The discussion begins with Nick querying Mark’s defence of hedonism in his new and thus far unpublished work, Wicked Wisdom: A Scandalous A-Z of Over 250 Life Issues (which, as the subtitle suggests, offers a somewhat controversial take on a wide array of topics, from adultery […]

In this interview, Sister Marilyn Lacey of Mercy Beyond Borders discusses her new memoir, *This Flowing Toward Me*, her fear of spiders, her work with refugees, and the surprising movement of God’s grace.

Well, it’s been a tad quiet over here at churchandpomo, for which we apologize.  We hope to reignite our readership with an exciting series of posts that will feature a dialogue between two important young voices in continental philosophy of religion, Nick Trakakis and Mark Manolopoulos. Nick and Mark are long-time friends and philosophical colleagues […]

And the answer is: Larry Mullen Jr. Apparently, the legendary drummer of U2 is playing the Johnny Hallyday role in the Canadian remake of Patrice Leconte’s wonderful film Man on the Train. He’s starring opposite Donald Sutherland, who probably has the Jean Rochefort role. The news popped up on Pop Goes the News, but the […]

In this interview, Peter Heltzel talks about his book JESUS AND JUSTICE and what is at stake in telling histories from the voices of the exploited and oppressed.

Jason Byassee examines fatherhood, mortality, resurrection, and the hope of a good surf.

Babies and pets are good for cheap laughs on the big screen, but are they good for anything else?