When I was in the middle of writing my proposal for Undead I found out that an author named Matt Mikalatos would soon be releasing a book called Night of the Living Dead Christian, a fun story about how we often act like famous fictional monsters. Well, he did and it’s awesome. Last week Matt […]
I’m giving away 10 FREE copies of A Year of Biblical Womanhood! Details at the end of the post. Who would’ve thought that the next book to blow up the Christian publishing industry would be Rachel Held Evans’ attempt to live for a year following all the Bible’s rules for women? But gender is the […]
There are headlines that make you do a double take, and then there are headlines that make you step on your dog, smash your knee on a metal file cabinet and smash your candy bar into the wall because there’s NO possible way what you just saw could ever be real. Nicolas Cage Likely to […]
One of the early promos for the original airing of The Walking Dead used the idea of how a person’s awareness of God would come into play during a zombie apocalypse. Of all the footage the producers could have selected to help introduce this new show they chose these 15 seconds for one of the […]
Ben Affleck’s third film Argo should cement his status as a director to watch. Gone Baby Gone is still one of my favorite films of all time, and The Town was great. Now he’s given us Argo, a truly incredible piece of storytelling that’s a love letter to cinema, a reflection on how much of […]
Some of you know that I hang around the music world from time to time where I meet some great people. And while a lot of the coverage from this summer has appeared around the web (like here and here), I’m STILL sitting on some great stuff that hasn’t been seen anywhere else yet. Enter […]
Looper is the new sure-to-be-classic Time Travel film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the younger version of Bruce Willis. Spoiler-free take: Go see this movie right now. The world-building is phenomenal. The plot is straight-forward, but still wacky enough you’ll want to see it at least twice. And time-travel is handled expertly, with some ultra-cool implications […]
I had the privilege, nay, the honor yesterday of spending some time with Master Knox McCoy who I’m pretty sure was the first-born child of that most interesting man in the world guy. Knox’s new podcast Xtra Bacon began this month, and I was his guest to discuss an important topic in the most fun […]
Click here to read my notes and highlights from The Meaning of Wife. What does it mean to be a Wife? Today, “Wife” is a confusing battle-ground, with women’s identity at the center. With messages assaulting both men and women from all side, what are we to think? Anne Kingston wades into the mess, separating out […]
James Cameron’s Avatar is the most successful film of all time, despite thoughtful and clear-minded critiques of its imperialist and anti-disability messages (there are also some less-thoughtful critiques out there). The picture Avatar paints of our bodies resounds with our larger cultural ambivalence toward them. Avatar demonstrates how we devalue our bodies. Avatar denigrates rather […]