Simon West (Laura Croft: Tomb Raider), quoted at flicksandbits.com: I wanted to direct [The Expendables 2] because I know how much people love these characters, and now they’re going to get to see more of them in even higher adrenaline situations, plus I loved the first film, The Expendables. I think audiences connect with this […]
Christian worship is the unique context, space, and practice through which the gifts of healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation are received and embraced.
At its most basic level, the Christian life is about prayer. Prayer is the font of all theology and the mode of being that constitutes faith. And yet, no activity seems more elusive and, at times, vague. What do we mean by prayer? How do we practice it? Where have we described and practiced it wrongly? How does it […]
19. We have a Hulk. 18. When our two part interview with the director of Munyurangabo inspired a mad rush of demand for more from Lee Isaac Chung, we delivered big time. 17. We are not interested in any scandals involving R-Patz. And on a related note, we have no desire to revisit the movie K-Pax. 16. We […]
In April, 2012, a Science article suddenly caught an extraordinary amount of media buzz: Will M. Gervais and Ara Norenzayan’s “Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief” (Science 336, 493, 2012). The L.A. Times, Scientific American, Huffington Post, ABC News, Atlantic, Panda’s Thumb, and other prominent venues immediately drew attention to the study (of which an admirably balanced account can be found here). It […]
Lately I’ve been reading God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse (Seven Stories Press, 2012), not so much a dialogue but an series of interlinear monologues between Continental philosophy’s enfant terrible Slavoy Žižek and Croatian radical orthodox theologian Boris Gunjević . The title is slightly misleading, if only because without knowing what is actually in the book, one […]
Shameless. I love it. Being it (it’s my eschatological witness at work), as well the television show. It reminds me of my time in Chicago. Except, I was a North-sider living the dream–what with all the pompous waiters and waitresses who were offended if you expected a refill on your non-sweet tea beverage. [Southern waitresses […]
Mea culpa. How else could I respond to Crystal Downing’s gracious, rightly-critical engagement with The Fall of Interpretation? In what was a moment of (rather Caputo-an?[1]) flourish, I seem to have blamed an entire discipline for mis-readings of Derrida. And this despite the fact that, as Downing rightly points out, there are plenty of professors […]
For some strange reason, I often forget/neglect the genius that is Will D. Campbell. (The same goes for William Stringfellow–oh, that guy is just too smart.) Campbell is one of the few Christian thinkers who understands how (classical) liberal theology ultimately created both right and left-wing Christianity, and, because of this, his understanding of how […]