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• Inspirational McCain

I try not to write about politics. I think the whole election process in this country is a farce. It’s an overblown popularity contest. Such a small percentage of the population really knows what their candidate believes. Most base their votes on purely aesthetic or stereotypical guidelines. They find someone that looks the most like [...]

• RIP Report: George Carlin

Hey everybody, I’m on a two week hiatus from blogging, but I had to come back on to say a few words about George Carlin. It is eerie that he is gone, I was just talking about him with my crew at UPS on Friday night. Most of my crew is filled with first or [...]

• Best Bets: Don’t Mess With the Kung Fu Panda

Well, last week Sex and the City did extremely well at the box office raking in nearly 57 million, easily overtaking the geriatric Dr. Jones who had a weak showing of only 46 million. The big winner of the weekend was the summer horror flick, The Strangers, it surprised most by having a 21 million [...]

• Rowling Writes Potter Prequel

The AP announces that J.K. Rowling has written a prequel to her seven volume Potter series. Albeit a short one. 800 words. It was part of a charity auction in which 13 different authors and artist were given a postcard sized piece of cardboard. Rowling covered both sides of hers with the prequel and the [...]

• Best Bet: Bigger, Stronger, Faster*

You can call this week the Summer doldrums. Unless you are a sex-crazed 40-year-old near menopausal woman or if you think people with bags over their heads are scary. The movie adaptation of the hit HBO series Sex and the City, and the all too cliche, alone in the woods, people are trying to kill [...]

• Headlines: 5-13-08

These are topics that I found interesting but either couldn’t find time to or couldn’t merit a full post for, so I have linked to the originators of the story so you can check it out. WARNING, the links below may not be “safe.” They may contain offensive language or images, and in no way [...]

• Is Horror Redeemable?

I’m in a class right now with a great group of Christians who love science fiction. Even more like tales of the heroic - comic book heroes or action figures fighting for justice on a big screen. That’s not to suggest that a lot of Christians I know don’t love drama, the low-budget indie, or [...]

• Updated 2008 Summer Movie Calendar

I have updated all of the information on my 2008 Summer Movie Calendar to reflect the date changes and new information that has been released since January.

• Science Fiction and Faith

I’m in a really cool class at Southern right now on Christianity and Science Fiction. Yeah, I know, your Cooperative Program dollars hard at work. But it has actually been fabulous and very compelling. For our final project we have been charged with the task of answering two crucial questions.

What is a biblical and theological [...]

• A Dad Shaped Hole?

At sixty-one years old, Sylvester Stallone shouted and shot a fifty-caliber cannon, halting the progress of any who wish to mutilate and murder the missionaries and mercenaries trying to bring light to a lifeless land. After the bloodbath, Stallone sighs, looking like a leathery god as actress Julie Benz gapes upward in awe. There is [...]

• Dear God

Ever feel like praying to some vague notion of a higher spiritual force? Yeah, me either. But that is what many people are doing. In fact there is a new website called Dear God where you can publicly submit prayers to the divinity of your choosing. And while no real answers are found, community is [...]

• UPS Philosophy: Test Drive

As most of you know, aside from blogging for a living (haha), I work at UPS here in Louisville. Well I am amazed at some of the discussions that we share while out on the ramp loading planes full of packages. Some of them are just crude and not fit to publish, however others are [...]

• Best Bet: Leatherheads

Looking for a good movie to see this upcoming weekend. Best Bet will help you sort through the drivel to find the golden jewel opening at your local theater this week.

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Oscar® winners George Clooney and Renée Zellweger match wits in Leatherheads, a quick-witted romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America’s nascent pro-football league [...]

• Imago Dei

I am very excited about a new Southern Seminary Student Arts Organization that I have begun called Imago Dei. We get our name from our belief that as people created in the image of a creative God our creativity is not something that should be suppressed by our faith, but just the opposite, should be [...]

• Parodied Last Supper

Culture Popped has a fine collection of pop culture Last Supper parodies. Like this one.

• Contemporary Art and the Incarnation

ByFaith Magazine has a good article on Contemporary Art and the Incarnation.
The doctrine of the Incarnation both frees and compels us in our interaction with contemporary art. We are free from fear because we see history as the outworking of God’s perfect will, driven onward by the reality of the eschaton. If we submit [...]

• A Theology of Consumption

Television has been called the electronic babysitter. Parents worry about too much sex and violence being transmitted to kids. Yet half a century of rhetoric about television’s harmful influence hasn’t changed the fact that most viewers simply don’t care. They don’t consider television a classroom dedicated to the development of youth. While legislators grabbed headlines [...]

• New Get Smart Trailer

A brand new trailer for Get Smart has finally debuted. Get Smart stars Steve Carell as Agent 86 and Anne Hathaway as Agent 99 and is based on the classic 1960’s TV show created by Mel Brooks. This looks amazingly hilarious! I know I say that a lot, but this time I’m 100% there. Steve [...]

• RIP HD-DVD

Toshiba announced today that it will cease development, production and marketing of its HD-DVD players and recorders. They had been struggling from the start to compete with Sony’s Blu-Ray in sales.
Early this year, they were dealt one of a series of deathblows by Warner Bros. who said that they would abandon HD-DVD and would [...]

• 2008 Summer Movie Calendar

The summer films of 2008 are shaping up to be some of the most exciting in years. While a handful look like they will be fodder for good theological/cultural discussion, most will be visually electrifying escapist fare. While there aren’t as many sequels as 2007, there are quite a few movies that look absolutely incredible. [...]

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