Lauren Wilford, Robert Andrew Norman, Zach Hoag, Zachary Thomas Settle

Breaking Bad Roundtable: Season 5, Episode 11

Zachary Thomas Settle: Faithful to the End: Season 5, Episode 11 Lauren wrote last week on the idea of sin, as its represented in the last few episodes of Breaking Bad, as a sort of commitment, a commitment that one has to honor. I think Lauren is right. Walt, is a man of utter faithfulness; […]

Zachary Thomas Settle

Breaking Bad Roundtable: Episode 10

Zachary Thomas Settle: All the Way Down the Rabbit Hole: Season 5, Episode 10 One of the most interesting things about the public’s reception of Breaking Bad is its overwhelming dislike of Skyler White; no other character has motivated such harsh critiques. I have to say, though, that Skyler has been one of my favorite […]

Zachary Thomas Settle

Breaking Bad Roundtable

Hello all. I’m excited to announce that The Other Journal is staring a new series in conjunction with the final eight episodes of Breaking Bad. We will be reviewing and discussing the show weekly, after each episode airs, in hopes of cultivating a fruitful and beneficial conversation about theology, culture, media and all things Breaking Bad. […]

Aaron Darrisaw

Rogue Women and a World Upside Down

The recent proliferation of movies starring a strong, take-no prisoners, independent female as the lead in an action role should give us pause.  And though such films are not necessarily new to Hollywood, they are increasingly prominent, today.  Some movies that come to mind are Hanna, Colombiana, Haywire, and (to some extent) The Debt.  Each […]

Aaron Darrisaw

No Marriage Without Judgment – The Hangover Part II

The ballyhooed and much anticipated comedy, The Hangover Part II, was released in theaters across the country this week.  Just as the first film, the movie is backdropped with a pending wedding, which sets the constant tension in the film, as the frenzied (and exaggerated) situations of the “wolfpack” threaten to ruin the wedding. This time, […]

Aaron Darrisaw

The Adjustment Bureau Adjusts Free-Will

George Nolfi’s recently released film (March 2011), The Adjustment Bureau, has brought the philosophical-theological question of free-will to the big screen in an engaging way. Based on the short story, Adjustment Team (by Philip K. Dick), The Adjustment Bureau tells the story of David Norris (Matt Damon) and Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt) – two driven […]

Heather Smith Stringer, Scott Strazzante

Common Ground: Symmetries of Land and Culture after Economic Change

In this photo exhibit, Scott Strazzante juxtaposes images from a cattle-ranching family and a family living in a subdevelopment several years later on the same land to reveal the differences, complexities, and similarities between farm life and suburbia life.