Today I’m glad to post a second response to Graham Ward’s Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Postmaterial Citizens. This reflection comes from Luke Bretherton, a theologian, organizer, and activist who is Senior Lecturer in Theology at King’s College London. Luke is the author of two important books: Hospitality as Holiness: Christian Witness Amid Moral Diversity (Ashgate, […]
15th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture (ISRLC), at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, England, 23-26 September 2010 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc2329/index.html A panel on “Continental Philosophy of Religion” is to be organized for this conference. The panel invites submissions which consider the turn to religion in recent continental philosophy and the […]
A review of James Cameron’s new film AVATAR that explores the historical and theological ideas of the film.
Most of us at Filmwell – unintentionally so – either teach or work at universities (and in some cases, are finishing graduate degrees at them). And so we’re all at the top of a new semester, more or less ready to dive in. While my own studies were finished in December, the small private college […]
Splats of mud in Munyurangabo, the unexpected drift of the lens in Revanche, the train passages in 35 Shots of Rum, the ecstatic beginning of The Headless Woman, the en plein air end of Summer Hours. This year of cinema was rife with memorable shots and sequences from so many different contexts and technologies. I […]
Eric Rohmer died on Monday of this week at the age of 89. Filmwell pays tribute with a consideration of the French film maker’s playful look at free will and determinism, sex and spirituality.
Christopher Benson, who earlier reviewed Rashcke’s GloboChrist in Books & Culture, has just published a comprehensive review of Westphal’s Whose Community? Which Interpretation? in the most recent issue of the Christian Scholar’s Review.
In part one of this three-part interview, Christian historian and cultural critic Eugene McCarraher reflects on a difficult decade and the implications of the Tiger Woods and political scandals that dominated the 2009 news cycle.
An introduction to The Other Journal’s 18th edition: The Economy and Hope Issue.