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 […]
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 […]
A sonnet about work.
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 […]
Reflections on why we ride.
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 […]
Very long ago I decided to start a series here I was calling the “Alternative History of Jesus,” and then I stopped after two. There were two reasons for this. First, I have been really busy. Second, I thought that the series would actually make a decent book – which would also give me the […]
Christianity and Marxism are bound together by the thought of liberation, but it is time to think liberation as a problem in itself, as a matter of prophecy rather than of conversion.
So, if I were teaching at Liberty University (stop laughing, I’m speaking hypothetically–seriously, stop laughing, geez), I wouldn’t be allow to show R-rated films or say the word ‘damn’, but I could, along with my students, carry a loaded gun to class. Just following in the footsteps of their ‘Prince of Peace’, I guess. If […]